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Big Breasts and Wide Hips

by Mo Yan - £9.99  Methuen Publishing (2006)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780413771551 | ISBN 10: 0413771555

In 1900, as the Boxer Rebellion rages in China, baby Shangguan Lu is hidden in a flour vat while her parents are slain by invading German forces.
 
Ninety-three years later, having survived the Japanese occupation, the civil war, the Grear Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, she dies in the care of her only son, a boy addicted to his mother's milk.
 
The story of an indestructible woman in a land brought to its knees by waves of war, famine and communism, by weak men, bandits and bureaucrats, philandering missionaries and hen-murdering midwives, Big Breasts and Wide Hips is a searing, satirical vision of China in the twentieth century. Resplendently grotesque, bristling with grim humoir, exhuberant in its treatment of sex, violence, politics and death, it confirms Mo Yan as the greatest Chinese author of his generation.

"Hugely satisfying... The prose is often brutal but it's frequently beautiful enough to make you stop and read entire pages again."
(Good Book Guide)

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