The Garlic Ballads Explained

The Garlic Ballads
Author:	Mo Yan
Title Orig:	天堂蒜薹之歌
Orig Lang Code:	zh
Language:	Chinese
Pub Date:	1988

The Garlic Ballads (Chinese: 天堂蒜薹之歌|links=no) is a 1988 novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Mo Yan. When it was published in the 1980s it was banned in China.^[1] The book is about the 1987 garlic glut.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bernstein . Richard . BOOKS OF THE TIMES; A Rural Chinese 'Catch-22' You Can Almost Smell . 26 September 2018 . en.
2. Web site: THE GARLIC BALLADS by Mo Yan Kirkus Reviews . 26 September 2018 . en-us.