During China's collectivist era in the late 1950s, a rural work team responsible for building an important floodgate receives a strange new recruit- Hei-hai, a skinny, silent and almost feral boy.
Mo Yan (literally "don't speak") is the pen name of author Guan Moye. Born in 1955 to a peasant family in Shandong province, he is the author of 10 novels including Frog and Red Sorghum, dozens of novellas and hundreds of short stories. He is the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 2009 Newman Prize for Chinese literature.
'Pungent, potent, absurd, moving, and alive, this early Mo Yan novella carries his unmistakable stamp. Survival is ignoble, and power blunt, but glimpses of the transcendent are possible: Radish captures the human condition with aching force.' Gish Jen, author of Mona in the Promised Land
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