''The Garlic Ballads'' ( zh, 天堂蒜薹之歌, links=no) is a 1988 novel by

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–winning author

Mo Yan Guan Moye (; born 17 February 1955), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (, ), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. Donald Morrison of U.S. news magazine ''TIME'' referred to him as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirate ...

. When it was published in the 1980s it was banned in China. The book is about the 1987 garlic glut.

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1988 Chinese novels Novels by Mo Yan {{1980s-novel-stub