BOOKS EBOOKS RARE BOOKS CLASSICAL CDs DVDs PRINTED MUSIC PODCASTS OFFERS
Click here to take a virtual tour of Blackwells, Oxford

  

Search for: Mo Yan

Refine your search:

 

£11.99
Not yet printed

ISBN: 9781611454277 - Life and Death are Wearing Me Out Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
Mo Yan

ISBN10: 1611454271  ISBN13: 9781611454277
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Arcade Publishing
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 Sep 2012
A novel that opens in Hell, where Lord Yama, king of the underworld, has Ximen Nao tortured endlessly in order to force a confession of guilt from him. When his efforts remain fruitless, Lord Yama allows Ximen Nao to return to earth... More

£18.00
Not yet printed

ISBN: 9780857420763 - Pow! Pow!
Mo Yan

ISBN10: 0857420763  ISBN13: 9780857420763
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 15 Jan 2013
A benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama--in which nearly everyone dies--unfurls. But in this tale of sharp hatchets, bad water, and a rusty WWII... More

£16.99
In stock

ISBN: 9780413771544 - Big Breasts and Wide Hips Big Breasts and Wide Hips
Mo Yan

ISBN10: 0413771547  ISBN13: 9780413771544
Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 13 Jan 2005
Set in a country where men dominate, this novel is first and foremost about women. At its centre stands Mother, born in 1900. Married at seventeen into the Shangguan family, she has nine children, none by her sterile husband. The narrator of the... More

£6.99
In stock

ISBN: 9780413771193 - Shifu, You'LL Do Anything for a Laugh Shifu, You'LL Do Anything for a Laugh
Mo Yan

ISBN10: 0413771199  ISBN13: 9780413771193
Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 17 Apr 2003
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. Mo Yan addresses serious... More

£8.99
In stock

ISBN: 9780413771551 - Big Breasts, Wide Hips Big Breasts, Wide Hips
Mo Yan

ISBN10: 0413771555  ISBN13: 9780413771551
Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 19 Oct 2006
Surrounded by a remorseless mother and seven sisters, each named in anticipation of his birth, a boy-child becomes the narrator of this story, presenting a generation of life in a rural Chinese community in twentieth century, populated by strong... More

£9.99
Publisher out of stock

ISBN: 9780099572275 - Red Sorghum Red Sorghum
Mo Yan

ISBN10: 0099572273  ISBN13: 9780099572275
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 Aug 2011
A legend in China, where it won the major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film, this is a novel of family, myth, and memory, set during the fratricidal barbarity of the 1930s, when the Chinese battled both Japanese invaders and... More

£19.95
Not yet printed

ISBN: 9789629963149 - Selected Stories by Mo Yan Selected Stories by Mo Yan
Mo Yan

ISBN10: 9629963140  ISBN13: 9789629963149
Publisher: The Chinese University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 15 Jun 2012
In these four stories, Mo Yan depicts life in an oppressive society and the plight of those who suffer, physically and spiritually, under its yoke. The collection exemplifies Mo Yan's versatility. His stories range from tragedy to wicked satire... More

£10.00
Not in stock - our special ordering service will try to obtain this title for you

New & used from £4.59
ISBN: 9781906497484 - Change Change
Mo Yan

ISBN10: 1906497486  ISBN13: 9781906497484
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 25 May 2010
Personalizes the political and social changes in China over the years in a novella disguised as autobiography (or vice versa). In "Change", Mo Yan - China's foremost novelist - personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the... More

£7.99
Publisher out of stock

Used from £0.73
ISBN: 9780413775313 - The Garlic Ballads The Garlic Ballads
Mo Yan

ISBN10: 0413775313  ISBN13: 9780413775313
Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 16 Mar 2006
The peasants of Paradise County in China have been eking out an existence virtually unchanged for hundreds of years, until a glut on the garlic market forces them to watch the crop that is their lifeblood wilt, rot and blacken in the fields. More

£6.99
Usually despatched within 10 days

New & used from £5.89
ISBN: 9780140168549 - Red Sorghum: A Novel of China Red Sorghum: A Novel of China
Yan, Mo Mo, Yan

ISBN10: 0140168540  ISBN13: 9780140168549
Publisher: Penguin Books PENGUIN GROUP
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Apr 1994
A legend in China, where it won the major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film, this is a novel of family, myth, and memory, set during the fratricidal barbarity of the 1930s, when the Chinese battled both Japanese invaders and... More