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Pow! 2012

By Mo Yan

  • Chinese fiction, Translations into English, Farmers, Fiction

"A benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama--in which nearly everyone dies--unfurls. But through this tale of sharp hatchets, bad water and a rusty Second World War-mortar, we can't help but laugh. Reminiscent of the dark masters of European absurdism like Günter Grass, Witold Gombrowicz or Jakov Lind, Mo Yan's Pow! is a comic masterpiece." -- inside cover

Chinese fictionTranslations into EnglishFarmersFictionNear and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author)

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Prestige, comic, plot-driven and meticulous.

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  • gravecomic
  • character-ledplot-driven
  • rawmeticulous
  • resolvedopen-ended

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