The Garlic Ballads: A Novel
By Mo Yan and Howard Goldblatt
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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 believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and government officials maltreat even those who have traveled for days to sell their harvest. A surplus on the garlic market ensues, and the farmers must watch in horror as their crops wither and rot in the fields. Families are destroyed by the random imprisonment of young and old for supposed crimes against the state.
The prisoners languish in horrifying conditions in their cells, with only their strength of character and thoughts of their loved ones to save them from madness. Meanwhile, a blind minstrel incites the masses to take the law into their own hands, and a riot of apocalyptic proportions follows with savage and unforgettable consequences. The Garlic Ballads is a powerful vision of life under the heel of an inflexible and uncaring government. It is also a delicate story of love between man and woman, father and child, friend and friend—and the struggle to maintain that love despite overwhelming obstacles.
Mo Yan
Mo Yan (pseudónimo de Guan Moye, y que significa literalmente «no hables») nació en una familia de granjeros. Dejó la escuela muy joven, durante la Revolución Cultural, para trabajar en una fábrica. Posteriormente se alistó en el Ejército Popular de Liberación. Entre sus novelas destacan El sorgo rojo, llevada al cine por el director Zhang Yimou, La vida y la muerte me están desgastando o Grandes pechos, amplias caderas.
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