The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan

The Garlic Ballads

Mo Yan with Howard Goldblatt

286 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

fiction historical dark reflective medium-paced
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The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrock...

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