Cover of 天堂蒜薹之歌 (Tiantang suan tai zhi ge)

天堂蒜薹之歌 (Tiantang suan tai zhi ge)

by Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt

1995 290 pages eng

The peasants of Paradise County have been living a hardscrabble existence virtually unchanged for hundreds of years, until a 1987 glut on the garlic market forces them to watch the crop that is their lifeblood wilt, rot, and blacken in the fields - leading them to storm the seat of corrupt Communist…

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