{"id":5067,"date":"2005-01-06T19:33:32","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T23:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=5067"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:56:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:56:13","slug":"big-breasts-wide-hips-a-novel-by-mo-yan-translated-by-howard-goldblatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/big-breasts-wide-hips-a-novel-by-mo-yan-translated-by-howard-goldblatt\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Breasts &amp; Wide Hips: A Novel by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/01\/Big-Breasts-and-Wide-Hips.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31148\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/01\/Big-Breasts-and-Wide-Hips.jpg\" alt=\"Big Breasts and Wide Hips\" width=\"301\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a>From the author of <em>Red Sorghum<\/em> 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\u2019s superb writing is so visceral, his descriptions so vivid that the smells, sights, and feelings become larger than life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/2005-01-06-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, January 6, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4326\" title=\"Big Breasts and Wide Hips\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/big-breasts-and-wide-hips.jpg\" alt=\"Big Breasts and Wide Hips\" width=\"126\" height=\"193\" \/>From the author of <em>Red Sorghum<\/em> 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\u2019s superb writing is so visceral, his descriptions so vivid that the smells, sights, and feelings become larger than life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/2005-01-06-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, January 6, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,67,6,6535,66],"tags":[3598,3610,6608,128,10,24,69,51,71,39,28],"class_list":["post-5067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-chinese","category-fiction","category-repost","category-translation","tag-asianweek","tag-big-breasts-wide-hips","tag-bookdragon","tag-cultural-revolution-in-china","tag-family","tag-historical","tag-howard-goldblatt","tag-identity","tag-mo-yan","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Big Breasts &amp; Wide Hips: A Novel by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/big-breasts-wide-hips-a-novel-by-mo-yan-translated-by-howard-goldblatt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Big Breasts &amp; Wide Hips: A Novel by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From 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. 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