Mo Yan was born in 1956 in China. The author of several novels including Red Sorghum (which was made into a highly successful feature film), dozens of novellas, and numerous short stories, he has won, among other national literary prizes, China's Annual Writer's Award, its most prestigious literary prize. He lives in Shandong, China.

"'Hugely satisfying' Good Book Guide * 'Hugely satisfying...The prose is often brutal but it's frequently beautiful enough to make you stop and read entire pages again' Good Book Guide * 'This is a novel with an undeniably big heart' Scotland on Sunday * 'If I were to choose a Nobel laureate, it would be Mo Yan' Kenzaburo Oe, 1994 Nobel Laureate for Literature * 'A fine Chinese writer deeply concerned with the fate of his fellow men' Times Literary Supplement"

Mo Yan was born in 1956 in China. The author of several novels including Red Sorghum (which was made into a highly successful feature film), dozens of novellas, and numerous short stories, he has won, among other national literary prizes, China's Annual Writer's Award, its most prestigious literary prize. He lives in Shandong, China.

"'Hugely satisfying' Good Book Guide * 'Hugely satisfying...The prose is often brutal but it's frequently beautiful enough to make you stop and read entire pages again' Good Book Guide * 'This is a novel with an undeniably big heart' Scotland on Sunday * 'If I were to choose a Nobel laureate, it would be Mo Yan' Kenzaburo Oe, 1994 Nobel Laureate for Literature * 'A fine Chinese writer deeply concerned with the fate of his fellow men' Times Literary Supplement"

Mo Yan was born in 1956 in China. The author of several novels including Red Sorghum (which was made into a highly successful feature film), dozens of novellas, and numerous short stories, he has won, among other national literary prizes, China's Annual Writer's Award, its most prestigious literary prize. He lives in Shandong, China.

"'Hugely satisfying' Good Book Guide * 'Hugely satisfying...The prose is often brutal but it's frequently beautiful enough to make you stop and read entire pages again' Good Book Guide * 'This is a novel with an undeniably big heart' Scotland on Sunday * 'If I were to choose a Nobel laureate, it would be Mo Yan' Kenzaburo Oe, 1994 Nobel Laureate for Literature * 'A fine Chinese writer deeply concerned with the fate of his fellow men' Times Literary Supplement"