Shifu, You’ll Do Anything for a Laugh by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
01 Dec, by in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories, Translation
Intriguing, disturbing short story collection from the author of haunting Red Sorghum.
Review: "New and Notable," aMagazine: Inside Asian America, December 2001/January 2002
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