num_pages: 359
description: 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 Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film, Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new and unforgettable.
language: English
title: Red Sorghum
titlecomplete: Red Sorghum
characters: 奶奶, 余占鳌, 我, 豆官
genres: Fiction, Historical, Asia, China, Literature, Classics, Nobel Prize, Novels, Historical Fiction, Chinese Literature
ratings_count: 7418
places: China
publisher: Penguin Books