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Jia Pingwa

贾平凹

Born 1952 · China

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    Mao Dun 2008 · Winner

    The Shaanxi Opera

    秦腔 · Qinqiang

    Jia Pingwa · 53 when first published

    Novel · 699 pages · Family

    AI-generated summary:In Qingfeng Street, a village in southern Shaanxi, the madman Yinsheng watches two decades of change as the old Bai clan fades and the fortunes of the Xia family come to stand for those of the Chinese countryside.

  • No English yet

    Mao Dun 2005 · Nominee

    怀念狼

    Huainian lang

    Title translated by AI:“Remembering Wolves”

    Jia Pingwa · 48 when first published

    Novel · Nature

    AI-generated summary:A journalist for whom nothing goes right learns in Shangzhou that the hunting teams have left only fifteen wolves, each of them numbered. He sets out to find them and runs into his uncle, the leader of a wolf-hunting team.