Red sorghum : a novel of China /
Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty, as the Chinese battle both Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. A legend in China, where it won majo...
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Literature type: | Book |
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Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty, as the Chinese battle both Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film, Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new--and unforgettable. |
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"First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., 1993"--Title page verso. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. |
Carrier Form: | 359 p. ; 20 cm. |
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9780140168549 0140168540 9780670844029 0670844020 |
Index Number: | PL2886 |
CLC: | I246.5 |
Call Number: | I246.5/M687 |