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Folio Fiction Discussion Group: Red Sorghum: A Novel of China

Wed, Nov 08

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Online via Zoom

Folio Fiction Discussion Group: Red Sorghum: A Novel of China
Folio Fiction Discussion Group: Red Sorghum: A Novel of China

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Nov 08, 2023, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Online via Zoom

About the Event

Folio's Fiction book discussion group features a list of classic fiction, curated and led by Folio Librarian Lillian Dabney.

Red Sorghum, the acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. 

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 directed by Zhang Yimou, Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new--and unforgettable.

Mo Yan is the pen name of the Chinese novelist Guan Moye, who is one of the most celebrated writers in the Chinese language. His best-known novels in…

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