Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty as the Chinese battle both the Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. As the novel opens, a group of
Red Sorghum: A Novel of China: novel
โ Scribed by Yan, Mo
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 1994;2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 282 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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