Mo, Yan
Summary: The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and government officials maltreat even those who have traveled for days to sell their harvest. A surplus on the garlic market ensues, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2012
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Summary: The trouble-free lives of the disabled residents of Liven in China are disrupted when a money-hungry county official convinces them to start a traveling freak show so that he can use the proceeds to buy the embalmed corpse of Lenin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2012