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Literature · 1987

Red Sorghum

Mo Yan

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Red Sorghum
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Restates memory in a sharper literature register.

Three generations of a Shandong family amid war, famine, and liquor production. Magical realism rooted in Chinese soil.

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Three generations of a Shandong family amid war, famine, and liquor production. Magical realism rooted in Chinese soil.

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Three generations of a Shandong family amid war, famine, and liquor production. Magical realism rooted in Chinese soil.

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