Mo Yan is China's most exciting, innovative, and challenging contemporary writer ... We are in the presence of a versatile and resourceful writer in command of the full range of literary techniques and possibilities.Mo Yan is a genius of the written word.

Big Breasts & Wide Hips is Mo Yan's grab for the Nobel Prize for Literature It calls to mind Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.