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Shifu, You'll Do anything For a Laugh (Translation) (Short Stories)
[Paperback - 2003]
mo yan
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Methuen Uk | ISBN: 9780413771193 | Pages: 189
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This is a collection of eight darkly humorous short stories - surrealistic political fables, ghost stories, tales of failed and perverse love, and stories about the destructive effects of superstition and ignorance. These stories capture the concerns of the Chinese: lack of income, famine, and the devastating effects of the one-child policy. One particular get-rich-quick scheme involves an unemployed man who decides to convert an abandoned bus into a venue for private trysts which will enable him to charge lovers by the hour.

About the Author

Modern Chinese author, in the western world most known for his novelRed Sorghum(which was turned into a movie by the same title). Often described as the Chinese Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller.Mo Yan(莫言) is a pen name and meansdon't speak. His real name is Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè).He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 for his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". Among the works highlighted by the Nobel judges wereRed Sorghum(1987) andBig Breasts & Wide Hips(2004), as well asThe Garlic Ballads.Chinese version:莫言

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