• ISBN13: 9780857421609
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publisher Imprint: Seagull
• Publication Date: March 15, 2012
• Pages: 117
• Original Price: INR 275.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 114 grams

About the Book In Change , Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the past few decades in this novella disguised as autobiography--or vice-versa. Unlike most historical narratives from China, which are pegged to political events, Change is a representative of "people's history," a bottom-up rather than top-down view of a country in flux. By moving back and forth in time and focusing on small events and everyday people, Mo Yan breathes life into history by describing the effects of larger-than-life events on the average citizen. "Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garc a M rquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition."-- Nobel Committee for Literature <br>