Mo Yan was born in 1955 to a peasant family in Shandong. Despite the audacity of his writing, he has won virtually every national literary prize, including most recently China's Annual Writer's Prize, its most prestigious award.
Kniha v anglickém jazyce... In this collection of eight astonishing stories - the title story of which has been adapted to film by the award-winning director of Red Sorghum Zhang Yimou - Mo Yan shows why he is also China's leading writer of short fiction.