One character in this novel rescues his future wife from a well where she is menaced by a toad and snake while hiding from soldiers with her dying baby brother. Another character in this novel conceals scissors in her bodice 
One character in this novel rescues his future wife from a well where she is menaced by a toad and snake while hiding from soldiers with her dying baby brother. Another character in this novel conceals scissors in her bodice to threaten her leprous new husband, whom she escapes by riding off on a donkey with one of the bearers of her wedding sedan chair. This novel's central family battles a pack of monstrous corpse-eating dogs led by Red, Green and Blackie. In this novel, (*) Spotted Neck is murdered by a rival bandit, who kills Black Eye to take over the Iron Society after setting up a love nest in Saltwater Gap with Passion, who is subsequently called "Second Grandma" to Commander Yu's "Granddad." For 10 points, name this extremely violent novel chronicling a winemaking family of resistance fighters in Northeast Gaomi Township during the Second Sino-Japanese War, written by Mo Yan.
One character in this novel rescues his future wife from a well where she is menaced by a toad and snake while hiding from soldiers with her dying baby brother.
Red Sorghum: A Novel of China [or Red Sorghum Clan; or Red Sorghum Family; or Hóng Gāoliáng Jiāzú]