{"product_id":"change-what-was-communism-0857421603","title":"Change (What Was Communism?)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0857421603\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yan, Mo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Change, Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the past few decades in this novella disguised as autobiography-or vice-versa. Unlike most historical narratives from China, which are pegged to political events, Change is a representative of peoples history, a bottom-up rather than top-down view of a country in flux. By moving back and forth in time and focusing on small events and everyday people, Mo Yan breathes life into history by describing the effects of larger-than-life events on the average citizen.Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition.- Nobel Committee for Literature\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67961552208160,"sku":"NEW0857421603","price":24.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/91bx_1Jw2qL.jpg?v=1792881526","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/change-what-was-communism-0857421603","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}