Big breasts & wide hips : a novel

The Resource Big breasts & wide hips : a novel
Label
Big breasts & wide hips : a novel
Title remainder
a novel
Statement of responsibility
Mo Yan ; [English-language translation by Howard Goldblatt]
Title variation
Big breasts and wide hips
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Language
  • eng
  • chi
  • eng
Summary
"In a country where patriarchal favoritism and the primacy of sons survived multiple revolutions and an ideological earthquake, this epic novel is first and foremost about women. As the title implies, the female body serves as the book's most important image and metaphor. The protagonist, Mother, is born in 1900. Married at seventeen into the Shangguan family, she has nine children, none by her husband, who is sterile. The youngest is her only boy, the narrator of the book, a spoiled and ineffectual child who stands in stark contrast to his headstrong and forceful sisters. Mother, a survivor, is the quintessential strong woman, constantly risking her life to save several of her children and grandchildren as the political tides shift dramatically from year to year. ... Each of the seven chapters recounts a different era, from the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 through the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911 and the early years of Sun Yat Sen's Republic, the Japanese invasion in the 1930s, the civil war, the Cultural Revolution, and the post-Mao years"--Page 4 of cover
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Awards note
"2012 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"--Cover.
Cataloging source
YDXCP
Dewey number
895.1/352
Index
no index present
Language note
In English; translated from Chinese
LC call number
PL2886.O1684
LC item number
F3813 2012
Literary form
novels
Nature of contents
bibliography
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