In "Change", Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the past few decades in this novella disguised as autobiography-or vice-versa. Unlike most historical narratives from China, which are pegged to political events, "Change" is a representative of "people's history," a bottom-up rather than top-down view of a country in flux. By moving back and forth in time and focusing on small events and everyday people, Mo Yan breathes life into history by describing the effects of larger-than-life events on the average citizen.
- ISBN10 0857421603
- ISBN13 9780857421609
- Publish Date 23 October 2012 (first published 25 May 2010)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Seagull Books London Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 118
- Language English