Big breasts & wide hips : a novel

Resource Information

The work Big breasts & wide hips : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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

Creator

• Mo, Yan, 1955-

Contributor

• Goldblatt, Howard, 1939-

Author

• Mo, Yan, 1955-

Translator

• Goldblatt, Howard, 1939-

Subject

• China
• China -- 20th century -- Fiction
• China -- History -- 20th century
• China -- Social life and customs -- 1912-1949
• China -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Fiction
• Manners and customs
• Women
• Women -- China -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Women -- China -- Fiction. -- 20th century
• 1900-1999

Genre

• Fiction.
• Fiction

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

Related

• Feng ru fei tun., Di 1 ban.

Member of

• Feng ru fei tun

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