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The narrator, a young man from the provinces, relates the intertwined histories of the Sino-Japanese war of the 1930s and of his parents and grandparents. A few key episodes serve as recurrent motifs: murders counterpoint battlefield massacres; women are raped by their saviors and by enemy soldiers; the community leader punishes gamblers and thieves withContinue reading “https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780670844029”

Mo Yan, writer

Mark Suzman Iron and Silk