Sandalwood Death by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt [in Library Journal]
07 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost, Translation
This recent novel-in-translation by the 2012 Nobel Laureate Mo Yan, originally published in China in 2004, embodies a labyrinthine web of changing alliances and terrifying vengeance. Set during the Boxer Rebellion, the turn-of-the-20th-century Chinese uprising against Western imperialism, it features pivotal figure Sun Meiniang, who...