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Book review: Pow!, by Mo Yan
Mo Yan's first novel to appear in English since the Nobel honour, Pow! reads like public masturbation; at times laughable, in the end it reminds readers that such an act should be done in private rather than in print.
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by Mo Yan
translated by Howard Goldblatt
Seagull Books
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The novel opens with a young man telling his family story to an old monk, reversing the well-known formula for childhood stories in which an old monk tells a story to a young one.
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