Red sorghum

680 EGP

No work by Mo Yan has received as much celebration as the novel “Red Sorghum” inside and outside China since its first publication in 1986. In the same year, the novel won the National Novel Award in its fourth session, before the film “Red Sorghum” received In 1988, it won the Golden Bear Award at the 38th session of the Berlin Film Festival, a cruel and bloody novel that depicts the ugliness of war, murder, and destruction following the Japanese invasion of China in the 1930s. It takes us into the worlds of the Chinese countryside and its customs Native Chinese traditions passed down through generations, and fields of red sorghum

.It is one of the most important works of fiction that received wide public and critical acclaim, and was able to place its author at the forefront alongside contemporary creative novelists and to surpass his generation of contemporary Chinese writers in his international fame after the novel was translated into more than thirty international languages.

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