Big Breasts and Wide Hips

Big Breasts and Wide Hips is a novel by Mo Yan. It won the Dajia Honghe Literature Prize in 1997. The book tells the story of a mother and her eight daughters and one son, and explores Chinese history through the 20th century.
Reception.
"Big Breasts and Wide Hips" received near critical acclaim from Western literary critics who praised Mo Yan's inventive story telling and use of his unique style of magical realism to describe the surrealism the average Chinese peasant felt living under the Japanese occupation.
Contributor for "The Guardian", Paul Mason declared Mo Yan to be the Chinese equivalent of Thomas Pynchon, concluding that Mo Yan was "unlike any of the great living authors."
Johnathan Yardley of "The Washington Post" praised Mo Yan's dedication to feminism throughout the novel, but offered numerous reservations about the quality of the novel. Most of Yardley's criticism focuses on the stale prose and clumsy characterization of Jintong.