Big Breasts and Wide Hips

Name: Big Breasts and Wide Hips
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By Mo Yan

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Collected Works of Mo Yan: Big Breasts & Wide Hips is a magnificent epic novel. Mother, the protagonist, is an ill-fated woman, who struggles to bring up her children one after another, enduring all kinds of hardships. Being involved irresistibly in the political stage of history in China in the 20th century, the large family connected by her daughters entangles more or less with a variety of social and political forces, civil organizations, and the official discourse of power in those mania years. As the rivalry,competing and fighting between these powers with different forms are conducted in her family, Mother has to face the reality and digest the sufferings on her own: the soldier-bandits, wars, turbulences and displacements, death of loved one and her worries and anxieties of her spoiled and ineffectual son who is the only son of the family. In the mania years(the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution period from 1966 to 1976), she even steals food from the mill to feed her children, showing her deep loves for her kids. ...

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Binding:

Paperback

Publication Date:

2012

Languages:

Published: Chinese, Original: Chinese

ISBN10:

7506366665

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