Found this at a thriftstore and will read it next. Saw Chinese film several years ago. In my TBR stack.
KCofKaysville I am bailing out on this one. Violence is just too gruesome for me 3y
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Found this at a thriftstore and will read it next. Saw Chinese film several years ago. In my TBR stack.
pickRed Sorghum provides an unflinching look at rural China in the 1930s, where bands of marauders, Japanese soldiers, and packs of wild dogs are all vying for the title of most vicious Sorghum Lord. The story is non-sequential and told in flashbacks, while at times laugh-out-loud funny, it is relentlessly and unhesitatingly brutal, with a delightfully weird twisted love tale of the narrator‘s grandparents. One of the best novels I‘ve read in awhile.
so-soA literary masterpiece in many ways, especially in regards to author's ability to describe the fields, the sorghum and the natural environment of north eastern China. It's also a very graphic and violent account of the past, exaggerated deliberately but not over the top. Overall, I enjoyed it, I felt like I was watching a movie when I was reading it, very intense.
“The ninth day of the eighth lunar month, 1939. My father, a bandit‘s offspring who had passed his fifteenth birthday, was joining the forces of Commander Yu Zhan‘ao, a man destined to become a legendary hero, to ambush a Japanese convoy on the Jiao-Ping highway. Grandma, a padded jacket over her shoulders, saw them to the edge of the village. “Stop here,” Commander Yu ordered her. She stopped.”
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May #bookhaul number 2: Chinese and Korean books. Three at the top: Mo Yan's Red Sorghum; Yu Hua's Chronicle of Blood Merchant and Brothers. The one at the bottom is monumental (900 pages with all the comments and appendices!) XIIIth century work by Buddhist monk on ancient Korean history named Samguk Yusa. #TBR #bookshopping #chinese #korean
my wishlist since he won nobel prize. #justarrive #newbooks #bookworm #bookaholic
@RealLifeReading #somethingforsept #septphotochallenge September Photo Challenge Day 4: POC Author. I read pretty diversely but mostly library books. But I bought this at an airport a few years ago and haven't gotten around to reading it yet. I'll be reading it as part of a reading challenge later this year.
