Jonathan Yardley's review of Mo Yan's Big Breasts and Wide Hips -

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/mo-yan-big-breasts-and-wide-hips/2012/10/11/49fa9454-13c7-11e2-bf18-a8a596df4bee_story.html Yardley is generous while acknowledging that Mo Yan is extremely ambitious and falls short a bit. The review was originally written and published when Big Breasts came out and republished now that Mo won the Nobel in Literature. I don't feel the Nobel was given for this expansive and less readable book - I did not like the excessively "male" point of view. The Nobel could be for Red Sorghum which I think was Excellent - wrenching, vivid and unforgettable. Kyi May Kaung.

Red cinnabar vase - NY Metropolitan Museum of Art - photo Kyi May Kaung.