Forty-One Firecrackers
18 hrs. 48 min.
Description
In the city where La Xiaotong was born and grew up, everyone is crazy about meat. Telling an old monk stories from his own life—and from the lives of other townspeople—La Xiaotong leads us deeper into the thickets and secrets of this strange town. Ostrich, camel, donkey, dog—like from a horn of plenty, meat dishes of the most varied animals pour out, and the stories become more and more strange, frightening—and funny? A storyteller, a teller of tales, a myth-maker, a satirist, a master of allusion, and a true hallucinatory realist… Skillfully weaving several narratives together, Mo Yan explores the very essence and way of life of modern China. The storyteller, the fabulist, the myth-maker, the satirist, the master of allusion, and the true hallucinatory realist… All this is Mo Yan—one of the greatest writers of our time, famous Chinese novelist who in 2012 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. “The Forty-One Exploding Firecrackers” in Russian is published for the first time and tells of a peculiar Chinese city where everyone is obsessed with meat. Nineteen-year-old La Xiaotong tells an old monk—and us—stories from his own life and the lives of other townspeople. And the farther it goes, the deeper he takes us into the thickets and secrets of this fantastic town, which is, in fact, only an allegorical reflection of modern China.
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