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Sandalwood Death: A Novel Volume 2

Sandalwood Death: A Novel Volume 2

Mo Yan
Goldblatt, Howard

Paperback

Series: Chinese Literature Today Book, Book 2

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 0806143398
ISBN13: 9780806143392
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: Nov 15 2012
Pages: 420
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Awards: IndieFab awards

This powerful novel by Mo Yan--one of contemporary China's most famous and prolific writers--is both a stirring love story and an unsparing critique of political corruption during the final years of the Qing Dynasty, China's last imperial epoch.

Sandalwood Death is set during the Boxer Rebellion (1898-1901)--an anti-imperialist struggle waged by North China's farmers and craftsmen in opposition to Western influence. Against a broad historical canvas, the novel centers on the interplay between its female protagonist, Sun Meiniang, and the three paternal figures in her life. One of these men is her biological father, Sun Bing, an opera virtuoso and a leader of the Boxer Rebellion. As the bitter events surrounding the revolt unfold, we watch Sun Bing march toward his cruel fate, the gruesome sandalwood punishment, whose purpose, as in crucifixions, is to keep the condemned individual alive in mind-numbing pain as long as possible.

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