by Mo Yan · Unionsverlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783293203204
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«Die Schnapsstadt» is the satirical novel by Mo Yan, published by Unionsverlag in paperback (511 pages, in German).
Ding Gou'er, a special investigator, travels to Jiuguo, the so-called «city of schnapps», to verify rumours of cannibalism among China's new elite. There he discovers a delirious world dominated by banquets, corruption, superstition and greed, in which reality is distorted and moral boundaries blur.
This title was originally published in Chinese in 1992 as «酒国» (Jiuguo); the German edition is from 2005.
For readers of contemporary Chinese literature and magical realism with an interest in social and political satire.
Mo Yan, born Guan Moye, is a Chinese writer. He gained attention for his 1984 novella, A Transparent Radish, and rose to international fame for his 1986 novel Red Sorghum, the first two parts of which were adapted into the Golden Bear-winning film Red Sorghum (1988). In 2012, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".
