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Title: Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh by Mo Yan, Howard Golblatt ISBN: 1-55970-671-6 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 16 July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: His Muses Were Hunger and Loneliness
Comment: This is a short story collection that ranges from the prosaic to the poetic. The title story ("Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh") is a delightful tale of an unemployed factory worker who gets incredibly creative and makes out like a bandit until he meets some clients that are out of this world. The Chinese director Zhang Yimou made turned this story into a film called HAPPY DAYS.
Other than the opener, my favorite stories are "Abandoned Child," which makes a strong statement about the continuing practice of female infanticide; "Love Story," about an unlikely love affair set in the countryside; the strange fantasty "Iron Child" about a possible outcome of over-industrialization; and the incredibly poetic "Man and Beast," which the author claims is a sequel to his novel RED SORGHUM (although I missed some of the references, I was enthralled).
In his preface, Mo Yan (which, by the way, is Chinese for "Don't Speak") says his muses were hunger and loneliness. In fact, the author has a unique rapport with the lives of peasants and workers, as opposed to many more intellectual writers in exile such as Gao Xingjiang. I have already read THE GARLIC BALLADS and plan to read more of this fascinating writer.
Rating: 4
Summary: Simply marvelous
Comment: I'm afraid I have nothing intelligent to say about this book. However, this is not a reflection on the quality of the book, which certainly was not lacking, but rather a reflection of my extreme fatigue. In any case, this book is certainly worth a read or two and perhaps even more.
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Title: Chronicle of a Blood Merchant by Hua Yu, Yu Hua, Andrew F. Jones ISBN: 037542220X Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Red Sorghum: A Novel of China by Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt ISBN: 0140168540 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas by Su Tong, Michael S. Duke ISBN: 0140260307 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: To Live: A Novel by Hua Yu, Michael Berry ISBN: 1400031869 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Rice by Su Tong, Howard Goldblatt ISBN: 014025644X Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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