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Change | Mo Yan
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In Change, Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the past few decades in this novella disguised as autobiography or vice-versa. Unlike most historical narratives from China, which are pegged to political events, Change is a representative of people s history, a bottom-up rather than top-down view of a country in flux. By moving back and forth in time and focusing on small events and everyday people, Mo Yan breathes life into history by describing the effects of larger-than-life events on the average citizen. Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition. Nobel Committee for Literature"
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Violetta
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This small novella isn't the one to begin acquaintance with Mo Yan's works. It is #autobiographical, but not very elaborate with details of #Chinese everyday life. I like it quite a lot, because I totally love his novels, and this book reveals some important milestones Mo Yan had to overcome before he became the worldwide known writer. I wish it was a full-length novel though, it would be so good!

Tanisha_A I bought this one sometime back. 🙂 6y
Violetta @Tanisha_A That's great! Your edition is really beautiful! 6y
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Came across this book in a bookstore. I had no idea about the works of Mo Yan.

BookishMe I just borrowed one of his books (novella) after this unusual title caught my eye 6y
Tanisha_A @BookishMe That title makes me curiouser and curiouser. Also, this person won Nobel in Literature in 2012. 6y
BookishMe @Tanisha_A that's news to me as well .. I will post the book I have borrowed. Can't recall which one now ;p 6y
Tanisha_A @BookishMe Sure! Would like to know! 6y
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