Mo Yan is not quite the toast of the literary community west of China. When the Nobel Prize for Literature went his way in 2012, it was deemed a ‘catastrophe’, a ‘betrayal’ and an ‘ominous signal’ by the fraternity, including…
A Mélange of memoirs, fiction, short stories, verses, book reviews and uncorked angst.
Mo Yan is not quite the toast of the literary community west of China. When the Nobel Prize for Literature went his way in 2012, it was deemed a ‘catastrophe’, a ‘betrayal’ and an ‘ominous signal’ by the fraternity, including…