Today's most revered, feared, and controversial Chinese novelist, Nobel
Prize winner Mo Yan, offers a tour de force in which the real, the
absurd, the comical, and the tragic are blended into a fascinating
narrative. The hero--or antihero--of Mo Yan's new novel is Ximen Nao, a
landowner known for his benevolence to his peasants. His story is a
deliriously unique journey and absolutely riveting tale that reveals the
author's love of a homeland beset by ills inevitable, political, and
traditional.