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| #855815 in Books | 2012-11-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x5.60 x5.50l,.69 | File type: PDF | 304 pages||27 of 28 people found the following review helpful.| Misery, Pain, Courage, Humiliation|By B. Doherty|I believe Mo Yan is trying to channel Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman" and show a society of Chinese people cannibalizing itself. To be fair, the book's criticisms of some government practices (making quotas of what should be farmed, then not being able to pay for the surplus that results) and some social practices (arranged marri|From Publishers Weekly|Banned in his native China, Yan's novel centers on a revolt among garlic farmers who are unable to sell their crop during a surfeit. |Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.|From Library Journal|
The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and government officials maltreat even those who have traveled for days to sell their harvest. A surplus on the garlic market ensues, and the farmers must watch in horror as their crops wither and rot in the fields. ...
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