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Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh by Howard Goldblatt, Yan Mo (2001, Hardcover) 
Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh by Howard Goldblatt, Yan Mo (2001, Hardcover)

 
Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh by Howard Goldblatt, Yan Mo (2001, Hardcover)

Publisher: Arcade Pub
Publication Date: 2001-08-24
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1559705655
ISBN-13: 9781559705653
Product ID: EPID1865378
Description: These stories by a Chinese writer date from the 1980s and '90s, and begin with an author's preface that gives the facts of Mo Yan's life. The characters include the participants in an arranged marriage, an old man who remembers a lost lo...
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Synopsis
These stories by a Chinese writer date from the 1980s and '90s, and begin with an author's preface that gives the facts of Mo Yan's life. The characters include the participants in an arranged marriage, an old man who remembers a lost love, and a landlord who gets more than he asks for from his tenants.

Details
Publication Date:2001-08-24

Size
Length:189 pages
Height:8.3 in
Width:5.8 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:13.6 oz

Publisher's Note
The author of The Republic of Wine presents a new collection of innovative short stories, which range from the tragic to the comic and reflect the author's own disdain for bureaucracy and repression, that includes the title story, which is being made into a major film by acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou.

Industry Reviews
"A mixed bag collection of frequently abrasive, imaginative stories....[W]hen Mo Yan's imagination cuts loose, and the gloves come off, he can be a provocative and powerfully original writer."
Kirkus Reviews (07/01/2001)

"Mo Yan creates a moving picture of those left behind in today's get-rich-quick China....[A] fine Chinese writer deeply concerned with the fate of his fellow men."
Times Literary Supplement - Frances Wood (05/31/2002)

"[B]eneath [Mo Yan's] unsentimental depiction of peasants and workers lies a deep affection for the downtrodden....Mo Yan transforms the wreckage of everyday life into something useful, cheering and rare."
New York Times Book Review - Michael Porter (09/09/2001)

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