Prized Possessions - A Novel Avery CormanĬollege freshman Elizabeth Mason grew up with every advantage, but her life is thrown into chaos after a violent encounter Elizabeth Mason’s parents always strived for the best for their daughter, sparing no expense on her education and upbringing. Based on an uprising in rural China in 1987, this book 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. The Garlic Ballads is a powerful vision of life under the heel of an inflexible and uncaring government.

Meanwhile, a blind minstrel incites the masses to take the law into their own hands, and a riot escalates to savage and unforgettable consequences. The prisoners languish in horrifying conditions in their cells, with only their strength of character and thoughts of loved ones to save them from madness. All the while, families are destroyed by the random imprisonment of young and old for supposed crimes against the state. A surplus on the garlic market ensues, and the farmers must watch as their crops wither and rot in the fields. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and government officials mistreat even those who have traveled for days to sell their harvest. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. Summary This stunning work of historical fiction illustrates the harsh realities of modern China by the nation’s first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy! The Garlic Ballads Mo Yan We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog.

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