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Publisher: Seagull Books (May 15, 2010)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1906497486

ISBN-13: 978-1906497484

Book description: In Change, Mo Yan personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the past few decades in a novella disguised as autobiography (or vice-versa). Unlike most historical narratives from China, which are pegged to political events, Change is a representative of "people's history," a bottom-up rather than top-down view of a country in flux. By moving back and forth in time and focusing on small events and everyday people, Mo Yan breathes life into history by describing the effects of larger-than-life events on the average citizen.

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