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Jiu guo

Jiu guo

by Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt

1992Drinking in literatureTranslations into EnglishFiction, mystery & detective, generalChina, fictionPolitics and government
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About this book

When special investigator Ding Gou'er hears persistent rumors that there is cannibalism in the province called the Republic of Wine, he goes to learn the truth. Beginning at the Mount Luo Coal Mine, he meets Diamond Jin, legendary for his capacity to hold his liquor and fondness for young human flesh. A banquet is served during which the special investigator, by meal's end in an alcohol-induced stupor, loses all sense of reality. Interspersed are stories sent to Mo Yan himself by Li Yidou (aka Doctor of Liquor Studies), each one more mad than the next. Wild and politically explosive, The Republic of Wine proves that no regime can stifle creative imagination.

Themes & subjects

Drinking in literatureTranslations into EnglishFiction, mystery & detective, generalChina, fictionPolitics and governmentPrivate investigators
First published 1992

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Setting

ChinaMount Luo Coal MineLiquorlandZhong guo20th centuryXXth century ChinaDangdai

About the author

Mo Yan
Mo Yan

1955

Chinese author. He was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary."

Authors

Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt

First published

1992

Pages

367

Read time

≈ 9h

Editions

22

Languages

English, Chinese, Polish

Publisher

Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated

ISBN

9787532146307

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