by Mo Yan · POINTS · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782020635196
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«Les Treize Pas» is the novel by Mo Yan published by Points in paperback (416 pages, in French).
In 1980s China, two physics professors try to teach relativity at a school that also operates as a self-managed rabbit-canning factory. Their wives spend their time skinning rabbits or working in a crematorium. The novel interweaves acrid humour, intellectual misery, lust for power and society's conversion to capitalism.
Work originally published in Chinese in 1989 as «Shísān bù»; this 2004 French edition, translated by Sylvie Gentil, bears number 1178 in the Points series.
For readers interested in contemporary Chinese fiction and in the work of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
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".
