In Change, Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the past few decades in this novella disguised as autobiography-or vice-versa. Unlike most historical narratives from China, which are pegged to political events, Change is a representative of "people's history," a bottom-up rather than top-down view of a country in flux. By moving back and forth in time and focusing on small events and everyday people, Mo Yan breathes life into history by describing the effects of larger-than-life events on the average citizen.
"Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcìa Márquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition."- Nobel Committee for Literature
| ISBN: | 9780857421609 |
| Publication date: | 23rd October 2012 |
| Author: | Mo Yan |
| Publisher: | Seagull Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 117 pages |
| Series: | What Was Communism? |
| Genres: |
Fiction in translation |