POW

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: First Edition

Description: 386 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, a benign old monk listens to a prospective novices tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family dramain which nearly everyone diesunfurls. But in this tale of sharp hatchets, bad water, and a rusty WWII mortar, we cant help but laugh. Reminiscent of the novels of dark masters of European absurdism like G¼nter Grass, Witold Gombrowicz, or Jakov Lind, Mo Yans Pow! is a comic masterpiece. In this bizarre romp through the Chinese countryside, the author treats us to a cornucopia of cooked animal fleshostrich, camel, donkey, dog, as well as the more common varieties. As his dual narratives merge and feather into one another, each informing and illuminating the other, Mo probes the character and lifestyle of modern China. Displaying his many talents, as fabulist, storyteller, scatologist, master of allusion and clich, and more, Pow! carries the reader along quickly, hungrily, and giddily, up until its surprising dnouement. Mo Yan has been called one of the great novelists of modern Chinese literature and the New York Times Book Review has hailed his work as harsh and gritty, raunchy and funny. He writes big, sometimes mystifying, sometimes infuriating, but always entertaining novelsand Pow! is no exception. If China has a Kafka, it may be Mo Yan. Like Kafka, Mo Yan has the ability to examine his society through a variety of lenses, creating fanciful, Metamorphosis-like transformations or evoking the numbing bureaucracy and casual cruelty of modern governments. Publishers Weekly

ISBN: 9780857420763