Filled with the sensual imagery and lacerating expressions for which Mo Yan is so celebrated, Sandalwood Death brilliantly exhibits a range of artistic styles, from stylized arias and poetry to the antiquated idiom of late Imperial China to contemporary prose. Its starkly beautiful language is here masterfully rendered into English by renowned translator Howard Goldblatt/5(11). Sandalwood Death is set during the Boxer Rebellion (–)—an anti-imperialist struggle waged by North China’s farmers and craft. This powerful novel by Mo Yan—one of contemporary China’s most famous and prolific writers—is both a stirring love story and an unsparing critique of political corruption during the final years of the Qing Dynasty, China’s last imperial epoch/5. · This powerful novel by Mo Yan—one of contemporary China’s most famous and prolific writers—is both a stirring love story and an unsparing critique of political corruption during the final years of the Qing Dynasty, China’s last imperial epoch. Sandalwood Death is set during the Boxer Rebellion (–)—an anti-imperialist struggle waged by North China’s farmers and craftsmen in ISBN
Sandalwood Death by Mo Yan, , available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. "Sandalwood Death" is a polyphonic novel, told in its first half from several perspectives and in the latter portion by an omniscient narrator. Sun Meiniang's section is the most vivid and. Filled with the sensual imagery and lacerating expressions for which Mo Yan is so celebrated, Sandalwood Death brilliantly exhibits a range of artistic styles, from stylized arias and poetry to the antiquated idiom of late Imperial China to contemporary prose. Its starkly beautiful language is here masterfully rendered into English by renowned.
Mo Yan. Translated by Howard Goldblatt. The following excerpt is from the forthcoming novel Sandalwood Death by Mo Yan, to be published in the CLT Book Series with the University of Oklahoma Press. Pre-order Sandalwood Death now at Amazon. Sandalwood Death by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt [in Library Journal] This recent novel-in-translation by the Nobel Laureate Mo Yan, originally published in China in , embodies a labyrinthine web of changing alliances and terrifying vengeance. Set during the Boxer Rebellion, the turn-of-theth-century Chinese uprising against Western imperialism, it features pivotal figure Sun Meiniang, who reveals in the first sentence that she will kill her father-in-law in seven days. Sandalwood Death is set during the Boxer Rebellion (–)—an anti-imperialist struggle waged by North China’s farmers and craft. This powerful novel by Mo Yan—one of contemporary China’s most famous and prolific writers—is both a stirring love story and an unsparing critique of political corruption during the final years of the Qing Dynasty, China’s last imperial epoch.
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