by Mo Yan · Einaudi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806222154
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«Sorgo rosso» is the historical fiction novel by Mo Yan, published by Einaudi in paperback (476 pages, in Italian).
A young man from Shandong province reconstructs his family's history from the 1930s to the 1970s. Among the sorghum fields, banditry, the Japanese invasion, and the years before the Cultural Revolution intersect, in a plot of loves, duels, and violence of mythical force, compared to Cien años de soledad.
It is number 440 in the Einaudi tascabili. Scrittori collection, with Italian translation by Rosa Lombardi; the Chinese original is from 1987.
For readers of historical fiction and contemporary narrative interested in twentieth-century Chinese literature.
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".
