Mo Yan y el condado de Gaomi. Un microcosmos mágico y feminizado junto a la antigua colonia alemana de Tsingtau.

Big Breasts and Wide Hips is one of Mo Yan's most acclaimed novels. The author was born and raised in the hinterland of Qingdao, the former German colony of Tsingtau, in NE China. European and foreign influences impacted on this rural territory, which at the onset of the 20th century preserved an ancestral genuineness. Exploiting this background and his own vital development, the Nobel laureate spins a narrative that spans the whole century and offers an alternative historical view of a tumultuous China. The main narrative voice, an ever-immature man, Jintong (the Golden baby), never leaves this tiny spot for his story-telling. But the novel reaches new summits in the Chinese literature through a bold feminist and feminine approach. Chinese fairy tales, South-American magical realism and a personal style combine to create an epic that transcends borders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]