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Big Breasts & Wide Hips
First edition (Chinese)
AuthorMo Yan
Original title丰乳肥臀
TranslatorHoward Goldblatt
CountryChina
LanguageChinese
Genremagical realism, historical fiction
PublisherArcade Publishing
Publication date
1996
Published in English
2005
Media typePrint
Pages552
ISBN978-1611453430
OCLC59544313

Big Breasts and Wide Hips is a novel by Mo Yan. It won the Dajia Honghe Literature Prize in 1997. The book tells the story of a mother and her eight daughters and one son, and explores Chinese history through the 20th century. The novel enthusiastically praises the original creator of life—the greatness, simplicity and selflessness of the mother, and the unparalleled significance of the inheritance of life. And in this flow chart of life, filled with the smoke of history and war, it is true, without any prejudice, and reproduces the history of a period of time. In 1997, Big Breasts and Wide Hips won China's Master Literature Award.

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Reception

Big Breasts and Wide Hips received near universal critical acclaim from Western literary critics who praised Mo Yan's inventive storytelling and use of his unique style of magical realism to describe the surrealism the average Chinese peasant felt living under the Japanese occupation.[1][2] Contributor for The Guardian, Paul Mason declared Mo Yan to be the Chinese equivalent of Thomas Pynchon, concluding that Mo Yan was "unlike any of the great living authors."[3]

Jonathan Yardley of The Washington Post praised Mo Yan's dedication to feminism throughout the novel, but offered numerous reservations about the quality of the novel. Most of Yardley's criticism focuses on the stale prose and clumsy characterization of Jintong.[4]

References

  1. ^ "BIG BREASTS AND WIDE HIPS by Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt | Kirkus Reviews". Kirkusreviews.com. Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  2. ^ "Fiction Book Review: Big Breasts & Wide Hips by Mo Yan". PublishersWeekly.com. Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  3. ^ Mason, Paul (11 October 2012). "Mo Yan's storytelling is as surreal as China". The Guardian. The Guardian. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  4. ^ Yardley, Jonathan (11 October 2012). "Mo Yan: 'Big Breasts & Wide Hips'". The Washington Post. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
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