四十一炮 [Sìshíyī pào]

四十一炮 [Sìshíyī pào] #1

by Mo Yan

Japanese edition of Pow!. 2012 Nobel Literature Prize winner Mo Yan's novel "forty one guns," about a kid at the turn of the 21st century China who loves to brag, and whose antics expose the greed, desire, and other weaknesses of human nature. (Vol. 1 of 2) In Japanese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Paperback

First published July 1, 2003

About the author

Modern Chinese author, in the western world most known for his novel Red Sorghum (which was turned into a movie by the same title). Often described as the Chinese Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller.

Mo Yan (莫言) is a pen name and means don't speak. His real name is Guan Moye (simplified Chinese: 管谟业; traditional Chinese: 管謨業; pinyin: Guǎn Móyè).

He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 for his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". Among the works highlighted by the Nobel judges were Red Sorghum (1987) and Big Breasts & Wide Hips (2004), as well as The Garlic Ballads.

Chinese version: 莫言