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| Author | Mo Yan |
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| Original title | 四十一炮 |
| Translator | Howard Goldblatt |
| Language | Chinese |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | (Eng. trans.) Seagull Books |
| Publication date | 2003 |
| Publication place | China |
| Published in English | 15 December 2012 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback |
| Pages | 386 pp (Eng. trans. edition) |
| ISBN | 0857420763 (Eng. trans. edition) |
| Preceded by | Frog |
Pow! (Chinese: 四十一炮; pinyin: sìshíyī pào) is a 2003 novel by the Chinese author and Nobel laureate Mo Yan. The novel's protagonist is Luo Xiaotong, a village boy with a passion for story-telling. It is set in a temple, where Luo recounts the story of his life to an old monk. He describes the difficult circumstances of his childhood in the "Slaughterhouse Village," a fictional town in which the population is obsessed with the consumption of meat and where corruption is rife.
The novel has been interpreted as an allegorical commentary on the state of contemporary Chinese society, though Mo himself maintains that he is merely a storyteller, uninterested in ideology.
References
- "Mo Yan's New Novel: A Peter Pan tale", The Economist, 22 December 2012.
- Hector Tobar, "Mo Yan's 'Pow!' packs a punch, however veiled", Los Angeles Times, 14 December 2012.
- "Mo on Mo", The Economist, 3 January 2013.
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| Screenplay | The Sun Has Ears (1996) |
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