The Garlic Ballads
18 hrs. 3 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Yan Mo
Author
Yan Mo
Narrator
Alexander Aravushkin
Narrator
Alexander Aravushkin
Description
A blessed corner—our county of Tiantian, famous for its juicy garlic shoots. But this time, something has gone awry: cooperatives refuse to buy the farmers’ generous harvest, prices collapse, hopes for a better life shatter, and enraged residents tear up the county administration… How did this happen—what led to it and what followed afterward—if the unrest supposedly broke out “out of nowhere”? And, above all: who exactly, strictly according to the letter of the law, will pay for the “garlic revolt”?
And even though the shoots themselves have already begun to rot, «Garlic Ballads» is a novel from 1988 that the future Nobel laureate wrote “in a hurry,” in just 35 days, drawing on newspaper clippings—and today it still sounds astonishingly vivid and modern. This is a story about the painful love for the people nearby, for one’s family, for one’s small and great homeland. About how even the best intentions can turn into death. About the justice you yearn to find under the Heavens, yet which always slips away. And about the fact that not everyone who is tried “according to the law” is necessarily a Criminal.
And even though the shoots themselves have already begun to rot, «Garlic Ballads» is a novel from 1988 that the future Nobel laureate wrote “in a hurry,” in just 35 days, drawing on newspaper clippings—and today it still sounds astonishingly vivid and modern. This is a story about the painful love for the people nearby, for one’s family, for one’s small and great homeland. About how even the best intentions can turn into death. About the justice you yearn to find under the Heavens, yet which always slips away. And about the fact that not everyone who is tried “according to the law” is necessarily a Criminal.
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