This is a Chinese love story by the author of "Red Sorghum". A 1987 glut on the garlic market leaves farmers of Paradise Country watching their crop rot in the fields. Against the backdrop of a riot against communist officialdom, three tales of love and tragedy unfold.
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This is a Chinese love story by the author of "Red Sorghum". A 1987 glut on the garlic market leaves farmers of Paradise Country watching their crop rot in the fields. Against the backdrop of a riot against communist officialdom, three tales of love and tragedy unfold.
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Seller's Description:
Good in Fair jacket. First UK edition in heavily stained & darkened dustjacket. Flap is not clipped. Orange cloth covered boards with gold lettering and stained textblock edges. Complete number string. Uncommon first by the 2012 winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. 290 pages. Tiantang suantai zhi ge (The Garlic Ballads) was his second novel published originally in 1988.
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VG+ in VG+ jacket. VG+/VG+. 8vo. original red boards gilt (lower fore-corner of a few leaves bumped, top edge slightly marked, else clean & bright throughout) in dustwrapper (slightly rubbed); pp. [x (last blank)], 290. A very good copy of the uncommon first UK issue. In 2012, the author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".
