by Mo Yan · Kailas Editorial, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788494139116
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The Garlic Ballads is a novel by Chinese writer Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012. The story takes place in an agricultural region where peasants, encouraged by the communist government, cultivate large expanses of garlic. However, they face the impossibility of selling their harvest due to the saturation of state warehouses and high taxes. This situation triggers a peasant uprising that is brutally repressed, but even in adversity, love and loyalty flourish among the oppressed. The novel offers a look at contemporary China, combining lyricism and realism to narrate an oriental tragedy.
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".
