Mo Yan, trans. from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt. Viking, $23.50 (368p) ISBN 978-0-670-84402-9 In the way that Chinese landscape painting reshapes the viewer's perspective by offering not one ...

Mr Wu claims that Mr Mo's books smeared the ruling Communist ... "Stay away from those around you who support suing Mo Yan," wrote one commenter. "Sooner or later, they will turn around and ...