Frog - format ePub

Au canton nord-est de Gaomi, le pays littéraire de Mo Yan, les histoires deviennent paraboles et légendes. Chien blanc et balançoire est le premier récit ainsi ancré dans sa terre, dans les souvenirs...

Lorsque le narrateur, « Mo Yan l’écrivain célèbre », revient auréolé d’un prix prestigieux dans son village natal de Gaomi, le regard qu’on porte sur lui a changé. Il y a les joyeux profiteurs, comme...

One of the Nobel Prize Winners in Literature Ideal for fans of Chinese Playground, We Are Party People, Death of Me, Skate with Me, A Farmer’s Life for Me, and similar works Written by today’s most...

In his latest novel, Mo Yan—arguably China’s most important contemporary literary voice—recreates the historical sweep and earthy exuberance of his much acclaimed novel Red Sorghum. In a country where...

In this hypnotic epic novel, Mo Yan, the most critically acclaimed Chinese writer of this generation, takes us on a journey to a conjured province of contemporary China known as the Republic of Wine—a...

Mo Yan, China’s most critically acclaimed author, has changed the face of his country’s contemporary literature with such daring and masterly novels as Red Sorghum, The Garlic Ballads, and The Republic...

Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty as the Chinese battle...

Die endlosen Felder sind der Glanz und der Reichtum des chinesischen Dorfes Gaomi. In mächtigen roten Wellen erstrecken sie sich bis zum Horizont. Rot sind auch die Vorhänge der Sänfte, in der die schöne...

In China brodelt die Gerüchteküche: In einer entlegenen Provinz sollen dekadente Parteikader, skrupellose Parvenüs, die nach der Wirtschaftswende zu Reichtum gekommen sind, kleine Kinder nach allen Regeln...

Seit Jahrhunderten ist der Knoblauchanbau die Lebensgrundlage der chinesischen Bauern im nordöstlichen Gaomi. Aber nun, im Jahr 1987, verfaulen die Knollen auf den Feldern, weil die Behörden sich weigern,...

Frogs is a richly complex new novel about China's one-child policy by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2012.A respected midwife, Gugu combines modern medical knowledge with a healer's...

The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they...

Dans la province du Shandong, Shangguan Lushi donne naissance à neuf enfants dont un seul garçon, Jintong, Enfant d'Or. Ce petit dernier, l'enfant gâté né d'un pasteur suédois, est un obsédé surdoué....

" J'espérais avoir à mon tour une telle occasion, aller au combat, devenir un héros, en revenir pour recevoir mérite et promotion. Si je mourrais au champ d'honneur, mon père et ma mère auraient alors...

Le Clan du sorgho rouge nous plonge dans l'Empire chinois des années 30, à feu et à sang. Bandes armées communistes et nationalistes se vouent une haine sans merci tout en combattant, en ordre dispersé,...

Mo Yan Les retrouvailles des compagnons d'armes Un officier rentre au village. " Sous une pluie battante, je gravis la digue de la rivière de mon pays natal. En me retournant, je vois l'arrière de...

Les Treize Pas, fugue brillante sur une base aléatoire, se présente comme un jeu de massacre. Deux professeurs de physique, occupant des logements mitoyens, Zhang Honqui et Fang Fugui, s'évertuent à enseigner...

Mo Yan n'est pas et ne se prétend pas un théoricien de la littérature. Au fil du temps il raconte ses souvenirs et réfléchit, de façon pragmatique, à son travail. Les quatre interventions regroupées ici...

Au creux des marais du canton nord-est de Gaomi, le clan des chiqueurs de paille a pour ancêtre mythique une pouliche et pour caractéristique son attachement à un chaume à mâcher, rouge, aux vertus...

PRIX NOBEL DE LITTERATURE 2012 Mêlant souvenirs et imagination débordante, ces deux nouvelles que relient l'attachement de Mo Yan à l'enfance, à sa province natale et au monde animal, décrivent une Chine...

Ding Gou'er, inspecteur auprès du parquet suprême, est envoyé enquêter sur une rumeur de trafic de chair d'enfants dans la ville minière de Jiuguo, haut lieu de la recherche scientifique en vins et spiritueux....

Dans la Chine des années 1960, un jeune garçon rêveur voit les jours défiler derrière la fenêtre du dispensaire de son oncle, où il est apprenti. L'arrivée de la belle Meng Xixi, une ancienne camarade...

Professeur Singe. Wang San est un professeur d'université, du genre malingre, distrait et myope. Son épouse, ancienne joueuse de volley, prend parfois son visage pour un ballon. Ce matin-là,elle l'envoie...

Au canton nord-est de Gaomi, le pays littéraire de Mo Yan, les histoires deviennent paraboles et légendes. Chien blanc et balançoire est le premier récit ainsi ancré dans sa terre, dans les souvenirs...

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