Guan Moye Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Dans un village chinois, Têtard écrit une pièce de théâtre. Il s’inspire de la vie de sa tante, une gynécologue à la fois terrifiante et fascinante, qui œuvre pour la mise en place du planning familial sous Mao. Très vite, elle s’engage dans le parti communiste, organise des campagnes d’avortements forcés. La tante de Têtard est prête à tout pour aller au bout de ses convictions politiques, malgré les terribles conséquences sur la vie des villageois.

Jintong, né après huit sœurs, est l'Enfant d'Or de sa mère. Autour de lui, la Chine rurale est confrontée à l'invasion japonaise, puis au maoïsme et enfin au néo-capitalisme sauvage. Fort heureusement Jintong, affligé d'un amour obsessionnel du sein maternel et des fesses des jolies filles, vit ces tragédies avec un certain recul... Une fresque délirante et sensuelle, truculente et poétique, longtemps interdite en Chine.

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 maltreat even those who have traveled for days to sell their harvest. A surplus on the garlic market ensues, and the farmers must watch in horror as their crops wither and rot in the fields. 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 their 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 of apocalyptic proportions follows with savage and unforgettable consequences. The Garlic Ballads is a powerful vision of life under the heel of an inflexible and uncaring government. It 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.

Verhalen uit de Chinese Volksrepubliek in de periode 1985-1993.

Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty as the Chinese battle both the Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. As the novel opens, a group of villagers, led by Commander Yu, the narrator's grandfather, prepare to attack the advancing Japanese. Yu sends his 14-year-old son back home to get food for his men; but as Yu's wife returns through the sorghum fields with the food, the Japanese start firing and she is killed. Her death becomes the thread that links the past to the present and the narrator moves back and forth recording the war's progress, the fighting between the Chinese warlords and his family's history.