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Character
Grave, prestige, earnest and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Mo Yan
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Trafalgar Square, Arrow Books, Tsai Fong Books, Inc
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9781448151172
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“THE NINTH DAY of the eighth lunar month, 1939.”
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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