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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140168549 |
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| Pages: | 368 |
| Sales rank: | 373,253 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.26(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.64(d) |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
Who among the following is the author of Red Sorghum?
Mo Yan (literally “don’t speak”) is the pen name of Guan Moye. Born in 1955 to a peasant family in Shandong province, he is the author of ten novels including Red Sorghum, which was made into a feature film, dozens of novellas, and hundreds of short stories.
When was Red Sorghum published?
1986
Red Sorghum/Originally published
What state produces the most sorghum?
Kansas
Kansas produced the highest volume of sorghum for grain of any U.S. state, according to a 2020 report. In that year, some 238 million bushels of sorghum for grain were produced in Kansas.
How is sorghum harvested?
Grain sorghum is harvested with a combine using a grain header with a rigid cutter bar, a flex header in the rigid position or a row crop header. Guards that help pick up heads are recommended if heads are drooping or stalks are lodged.
What is the setting of Red Sorghum?
Published in 1986, Red Sorghum is a magical realism novel written by Mo Yan. Set in China from the 1920s to the 1970s, the novel plays with time, non-chronologically telling the story of three generations of the Shandong family as they transition from sorghum wine makers to resistance soldiers during the Second Shino-Japanese War.
What do you like most about Mo Yan’s writing?
Mo Yan gives us a delicate story about war and love and the power of remembrance. His prose is very pretty, sometimes too much and sometimes just perfect. The book switches lawlessly back and forth, the use of third-person always the writing to adjust to different scenes with ease.
What is Momo Yan’s pen name?
Mo Yan, which translates in English as “don’t speak,” is the pen name of Guan Moye. Yan won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012, and Red Sorghum is typically considered his best novel. It was adapted into an Oscar nominated film in 1987. At the story’s opening, Commander Yu prepares his soldiers to attack the invading Japanese army.
What is the significance of the title sorghum by Robert Louis Stevenson?
The ever-present sorghum of the title is a metaphor for life and death, safety and menace, and, above all, blood, red blood. Mo moves the reader back in forth in time. A past event will be mentioned, almost in passing, and you can be sure the narrative will come back to elaborate in great detail.
