Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh - Softcover

Mo Yan's voice will find its way into the heart of the American reader, just as Kundera and Garcia Marquez have. --Amy Tan Mo Yan s voice will find its way into the heart of the American reader, just as Kundera and Garcia Marquez have. --Amy Tan

Mo Yan uses his talent to expose the harsh abuses of an oppressive society. In these stories he writes of those who suffer, physically and spiritually: the newly unemployed factory worker who hits upon an ingenious financial opportunity; two former lovers revisiting their passion fleetingly before returning to their spouses; young couples willing to pay for a place to share their love in private; the abandoned baby brought home by a soldier to his unsympathetic wife; the impoverished child who must subsist on a diet of iron and steel.