Transparent Carrot

Name: Transparent Carrot
Author: Mo Yan

透明的红萝卜

by Mo Yan (莫言)

Status: Completed
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

"Transparent Carrot" is a collection of novellas by Mo Yan, the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature, including "Transparent Carrot", "Ball Lightning" and "Blonde Baby". "Transparent Carrot" writes about a person with a strong sense of touch The story of a little black boy with strange functions such as hearing and hearing, and the girl Juzi, the little stonemason, the little blacksmith and others who work at the flood gate construction site. Their fates are intertwined. Under the strange light of the transparent carrot, the novel has a sad and tragic atmosphere; "Ball Lightning" is Mo Yan's early work in the style of stream of consciousness. The novel writes about the protagonist "I" being knocked unconscious by ball lightning. Memories, memories within memories, interspersed with the dreams of the daughter and the memories of the wife, telling a diverse story; "Blonde Baby" is a novel with a dark temperament. The novel tells the subtle emotions between the blind mother, her son Tianqiu, her daughter-in-law Zijin, and the young man Huang Mao. The secret behind the blond baby carries the human seeds of jealousy and hatred. These novellas have distinctive artistic styles and unique characteristics. They can be called very exciting "small novels" in terms of content and length. The works have demonstrated Mo Yan's unique temperament in terms of language style, narrative structure, and characterization. Themes such as "special children" and "hunger" appeared relatively early in Mo Yan's novels.

Reader comments

For now, I'm just reading the Carrot article, it's very interesting. When the pain reaches the extreme, it becomes numb. Being numb is not unkindness. Many times it is just because there is no choice, just like a dandelion seed cannot choose its birthplace. Whether it is born in poverty or in wealth, it has to look up at the sun.
6 likes2mo ago
I've finished reading this book. This book is a collection of short stories, including Transparent Carrots, Ball Lightning, and Blonde Babies. I admit that it is difficult for me to understand the transparent carrot. Maybe it is because my childhood was not bad. I can only feel the pain and hope of the black child with my scales and claws. The transparent carrot is real and illusory at the same time. The real thing is there and everyone has it. The illusory thing is the care and love that Hei Hai can't get. Ball Lightning is really well written, I think it's more beautiful than Carrots. The dream of the Grasshopper is bound by a tortuous fate. He accepts his fate but refuses to accept it, and is tortured repeatedly. The changes of the times have fragmented people. The cocoon cannot learn, the cat's eyes in the new era, the innocent and happy Cricket, the parents in the past, and the Grasshopper who was disturbed in the middle. The story happened on a rainy day, but it was written for more than ten years. The Golden Baby, a simple and painful story, Sun Tianqiu, who did nothing but made outrageous mistakes, he pulled himself into the abyss step by step, Bauhinia, a woman who longed for love, was pushed out of the wall by desire and her husband's indifference, Huang Mao, he is actually not important, without him there would still be white and green hair, mother-in-law, although invisible but more transparent than anyone else, it is simply a story of an irresponsible husband bringing pain to a family.
6 likes3mo ago
This book by Mo Yan is very imaginative! I particularly like the little black kid in "Transparent Carrot". Although he has a pitiful background, he has super powers. There is also the little mason, he is so handsome, and he is also very kind. Every character in the book is very vivid and the plot is very attractive, which allowed me to see the life of that special era. Mo Yan's writing is so amazing!
5 likes2y ago
Mo Yan's works make him famous and he is worthy of being considered a literary giant.
1 like1y ago
The current situation in China, poor black boy! ! !
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