Big Breasts, Wide Hips
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AuthorЯнь Мо
Mo Yan is one of the most famous contemporary writers in the Chinese language. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012, making him the first writer from mainland China to receive this honor. Currently, Mo Yan serves as the vice chairman of the Chinese Writers' Association. The novel "Big Breasts, Wide Hips" is a chronicle of the life of a sexually powerful, prolific, and wise woman from the late Qing era to the period after Mao's death, which cannot leave indifferent anyone who opens this book. The story of one family recounts all the trials of the 20th century in China, the strength of spirit of ordinary women of the people, and also shows the underside of communist society.