Mo Yan is one of China's best-known contemporary writers, winning the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "hallucinatory realism that combines folk tales with history and the present." “Changes” is the story of a “little man” whose life changes along with the life of the country. A leisurely, extremely imaginative narrative leads us from one event to another. The author shares with us his thoughts and observations, without missing a single detail. And these details provide a much more complete picture of the life of China and the Chinese than the thickest history textbooks.