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The peasants of Paradise County have been living a hardscrabble existence virtually unchanged for hundreds of years, until a 1987 glut on the garlic market forces them to watch the crop that is their lifeblood wilt, rot, and blacken in the fields - leading them to storm the seat of corrupt Communist officialdom in an apocalyptic riot.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 290
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton, Arcade Pub., Rowohlt
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- Chinese, English, German
- ISBN
- 9780140233919
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Chinese author. He was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary."
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