Author: Mo Yan

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• Joseph Stalin (1)
  • IN: The Garlic Ballads (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Novelists are forever trying to distance themselves from politics, but the novel itself closes in on politics. Novelists are so concerned with "man's fate" that they tend to lose sight of their own fate. Therein lies their tragedy.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Russia
• Mo Yan (1)
  • IN: Big Breasts and Wide Hips (1996) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: First Sister was stunned. "Mother", she said, "you've changed." "Yes, I've changed," Mother said, "and yet I'm still the same. Over the years, members of the Shangguan family have died off like stalks of chives, and others have been born to take their place. Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's the living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.
    FROM: Big Breasts and Wide Hips, (1996), Author, China

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• Mo Yan (1)
  • IN: Big Breasts and Wide Hips (1996) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: First Sister was stunned. "Mother", she said, "you've changed." "Yes, I've changed," Mother said, "and yet I'm still the same. Over the years, members of the Shangguan family have died off like stalks of chives, and others have been born to take their place. Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's the living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.
    FROM: Big Breasts and Wide Hips, (1996), Author, China