2012 års nobelpristagare: Mo Yan

När den rike godsägaren Ximen Nao återföds, efter att ha blivit dödad av upproriska bönder, är det i form av en åsna! Under de kommande femtio åren ska han få uppleva Kina efter revolutionen i skepnad av både åsna, oxe, gris, hund och apa innan han till sist blir människa igen.

En storslagen roman om en grupp bönders uppror mot den korrupta och maktfullkomliga kinesiska byråkratin. När den vitlök staten uppmuntrat bönderna att odla plötsligt visar sig vara osäljbar exploderar missnöjet i ett våldsamt upplopp. I den skoningslösa våg av massarresteringar som följer krossas familjer, vänner och älskande.

Det röda fältet är en storslagen och brutal skildring av Kina under 1920- och 30-talet. Ett mord begås, banditer härjar, det är en hård tid. Kampen mot övermakten, här i form av den japanska ockupationsmakten, är ständigt närvarande.

In a country where patriarchal favoritism and the primacy of sons survived multiple revolutions and an ideological earthquake, this epic novel is first and foremost about women, with the female body serving as the book's central metaphor.

The hero-or antihero-of Mo Yan's novel is a landowner known for his generosity and kindness and benevolence to his peasants. However, during Mao's Land Reform Movement of 1948, he is not only stripped of his land and worldly possessions but cruelly executed, despite his protestations of innocence.

In this collection of eight astonishing stories--the title story of which has been adapted to film by the award-winning director of Red Sorghum Zhang Yimou--Mo Yan shows why he is also China's leading writer of short fiction.

The only boy in a family of nine children observes his own spoiled and ineffectual characteristics while surrounded by eight strong female siblings and a strong survivor mother.

In this hypnotic epic novel, Mo Yan, the most critically acclaimed Chinese writer of this generation, takes us on a journey to a conjured province of contemporary China known as the Republic of Wine.

As the novel opens, a group of villagers, led by Commander Yu, the narrator's grandfather, prepare to attack the advancing Japanese.