Big Breasts & Wide Hips: A Novel
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781559706728 (1559706724)
ASIN: 1559706724
Publish date: 2004-11-17
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Pages no: 552
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Nobel Prize,
China,
Chinese Literature,
Fiction,
Historical
I loved the homage to the female- mother, nurturer, life giver, sacrificial lamb. Yan is brilliant in his use of allegories in the tale of the Shangguan family (specifically Mother and Jintong) from a China (Motherland) violated by war, suffering famine, poverty and "imprisonment" behind the bamboo ...
Read it in Chinese. Somewhat like Yu Hua's To Live with magical realism.