Description

This potent book by Mo Yan-among modern China's most respected and well-known authors-is equally a stirring love story and an unsparing critique of governmental problem throughout the closing decades of the Qing Dynasty, China's last imperial epoch. Sandalwood Demise is placed throughout the Boxer Rebellion (1898-1901) -an anti-imperialist struggle fought by Northern China's producers and artisans towards Western impact. Against an extensive historical fabric, the book centers around the interaction between its female character, Sunlight Meiniang, and the several paternal figures in her life. One of these simple guys is her natural dad, Sunlight Google, an opera virtuoso and a chief of the Boxer Rebellion.