03346cam a2200433 4500 571269608 TxAuBib 20220703120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781628722062 1628722061 B00EBO2CQ6 Amazon ac079f42-bc4b-4797-a16f-a82bfab1a4d4 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 705246 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Yan, Mo. The Garlic Ballads [Bridges eBook] : A Novel. Arcade, 2012. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 486kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Nobel prize. Literary. Chinese. Mo Yan. HTML:<p><b>This stunning work of historical fiction illustrates the harsh realities of modern China by the nation's first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.</b><br /> <br /> 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 mistreat even those who have traveled for days to sell their harvest. A surplus on the garlic market ensues, and the farmers must watch as their crops wither and rot in the fields.<br /> <br /> All the while, families are destroyed by the random imprisonment of young and old for supposed crimes against the state. The prisoners languish in horrifying conditions in their cells, with only their strength of character and thoughts of loved ones to save them from madness. Meanwhile, a blind minstrel incites the masses to take the law into their own hands, and a riot escalates to savage and unforgettable consequences.<br /> <br /> <i>The Garlic Ballads</i> is a powerful vision of life under the heel of an inflexible and uncaring government. Based on an uprising in rural China in 1987, this book is also a delicate story of love between man and woman, father and child, friend and friend—and the struggle to maintain that love despite overwhelming obstacles.</p>. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded Author. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-06-29 20:00:03. Goldblatt, Howard. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2616-1/AC0/79F/42/GarlicBallads-762.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=AC079F42-BC4B-4797-A16F-A82BFAB1A4D4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2616-1/AC0/79F/42/GarlicBallads-762.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=AC079F42-BC4B-4797-A16F-A82BFAB1A4D4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2616-1/AC0/79F/42/GarlicBallads-762.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=AC079F42-BC4B-4797-A16F-A82BFAB1A4D4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)