The peasants of Paradise County in China have been eking out an existence virtually unchanged for hundreds of years until a glut on the garlic market forces them to watch the crop that is their lifeblood wilt rot & blacken in the fields
- leading them to storm the seat of corrupt Communist officialdom in an apocalyptic riot. Against this heroic backdrop unfold three intricately interwoven tales of love loyalty & retribution: between man & woman father & child friend & friend. Banned in China following Tianamen Square The Garlic Ballads" is a bawdy mystical & brawling novel that portrays a landscape at once strange & utterly compelling & a people whose fierce passions overflow the rigid confines of their traditions."