The Republic of Wine by Yan Mo 2000, Book: items on eBay.com

Description: Cannibalism is rumored to be rampant in a province of China known as the Republic of Wine. Inspector Ding Gou'er investigates and becomes an unwitting participant in what may be a fantastic cannibal banquet. Mo Yan's unusual novel is a b...

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Cannibalism is rumored to be rampant in a province of China known as the Republic of Wine. Inspector Ding Gou'er investigates and becomes an unwitting participant in what may be a fantastic cannibal banquet. Mo Yan's unusual novel is a blend of surrealism, poetry, and detective fiction.

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Publication Date:	2000-01-01

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Length:	355 pages

Industry Reviews
"Like the gut-burning, groin-tightening, 120-proof liquor that courses through it, Mo Yan's THE REPUBLIC OF WINE is not for weak stomachs or readers with a low tolerance for caustic literature. Mr. Mo has distilled the grotesqueries of the human character--further twisted by the political vagaries of Chinese communism and distorted by the commercialism and moral ambiguity of post-Tiananmen China--and served it up as pure literary poison. No one is spared by this smart, black satire, not even the author himself....In a farcical take on how the party (and corporate China) subverts the stuff of legend to its own ends, it's deliberately hard to distinguish cultural mythology from political propaganda. Mr. Mo gives a middle finger to Beijing's censors and winks at a younger generation of literary bad boys. He also pays homage to a critically acclaimed but commercially failed school of avant-garde writers who take a clinical view of macabre tragedies."
Wong

"A treasure trove of polymorphous perversity and go-for-broke story telling...with Swiftian vigor and contempt."
Biersdorfer

"However surrealistic its fantasies may be, THE REPUBLIC OF WINE is brutally and uncompromisingly realistic....But [it] is by no means simply a political satire. It's replete with alcohol-related details and images that bring Liquorland to life...."
Zoller

"[T]here's no denying that in his juxtapositions of the horrific and the comic, the lyric and the scatological, Mo is poking fun at China's post-Mao reformist era while letting out a wrenching cri de coeur for the lost soul of his country."
Gambone

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