Mo Yan

Co-presented with WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY, The WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY, & KINOKUNIYA BOOKSTORE. 2009 begins most auspiciously as Mo Yan, one of the foremost novelists at work in the world today, reads and discusses his work in this evening which is believed ... (more)to be part of his first-ever tour of the U.S. From Beijing, he is the author of numerous novels, among which are Red Sorghum, The Garlic Ballads, The Republic of Wine, and Big Breasts & Wide Hips. Most recent is the 2007 Man Asian Literary Prize winning novel, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (Arcade, translated by Howard Goldblatt).