The acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan winner of the
2012 Nobel Prize in Literature Spanning three generations this novel of family and myth is
told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a
landscape of gemlike beauty as the Chinese battle both Japanese invaders and each other in the
turbulent 1930s. A legend in China where it won major literary awards and inspired an
Oscar-nominated film directed by Zhang Yimou Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history
collide to produce fiction that is entirely new-and unforgettable.
