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Big Breasts & Wide Hips: A Novel by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt [in AsianWeek]

Big Breasts and Wide HipsFrom the author of Red Sorghum comes a monumental novel that follows 20th-century China through the lives of the eponymous woman and her nine children, none of them fathered by her sterile husband. The birth of her last child, the one boy, is a complicated, stupendous feat that brings in the village vet, the midwife, and finally a Japanese army doctor. Mo’s superb writing is so visceral, his descriptions so vivid that the smells, sights, and feelings become larger than life.

Review: “New and Notable Books,” AsianWeek, January 6, 2005

Readers: Adult

Published: 2004 (United States)

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