Red Sorghum by Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt (Translator)

Red Sorghum by Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt (Translator)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, Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new

a local witch

Publishing in English for the very first time

and impossible rescues – Diego de la Vega

In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city

and set in the American Deep South in the nineteenth century

generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of research

a haunted house

Matt Freeman thought he could get on with his life

They marshal trillions of dollars on behalf of their institutions and influence how capital flows throughout the world

he thought he was heading off to Africa to help two warring parties achieve a peace both sides wanted

But the demands of Natsuki's family are increasing

as an effective discipline for the realization of God