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Big Breasts and Wide Hips

by Mo Yan

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About This Book

Big Breasts and Wide Hips is a novel by Mo Yan. It won the Dajia Honghe Literature Prize in 1997 and was translated to English by Howard Goldblatt in 2005. The book uses an epic narrative structure that follows multiple generations of the Shangguan family to explore major events in 20th century Chinese history such as the Chinese Communist Revolution, the Chinese Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. In 1997, Big Breasts and Wide Hips won China's Master Literature Award.

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