The Gale

Written by Mo Yan， adapted by Xiao Xiao， illustrated by Zhu Chengliang

21st Century Publishing Group

June 2021

68.00 （CNY）

Brief introduction：

This story is an adaptation of literature Nobel laureate Mo Yan’s short story The Gale. In order to supplement the family income， a young boy， Star， wakes up before dawn and goes with his grandfather to the meadow a few miles away to cut the reeds. After a day’s hard work， his grandpa has cut enough reeds to fill their wheelbarrow. But on the way back home that evening， Star and his grandpa run into a violent gale. They fight against the gale， but eventually the force of the wind blows the wheelbarrow clean of all its reeds， leaving only one blade left stuck by the axle. Star picks it up and throws it into the twilight.

Mo Yan

Under the pseudonym of Mo Yan， Guan Moye is vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association （CWA） and the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. He published his first novel in 1981 and his novella Red Sorghum in 1986， which caused a stir in Chinese literary circle. Mo Yan has won many literary awards at home and abroad， such as the Mao Dun Literature Prize， the Nobel Prize for Literature， and the Wang Zengqi Chinese Fiction Prize. His masterpieces include Red Sorghum and Frog， etc. The Gale is a picture book adapted from his short story.