The Garlic Ballads, Mo Yan

I finished The Garlic Ballads a few months ago as part of my Nobel literature project, but it’s been hard for me to write about it because it was so draining. The book is dark, full of random violence, and bleak. If The Good Earth says that it was hard being a Chinese peasant in the early 20th century, The Garlic Ballads says it was har [...]