Yuko Shimizu

Folk Opera
The New York Times Book Review cover for recent Nobel Literary Prize winning Chinese writer Mo Yan’s Sandalwood Death and Pow!  Review article is written by Ian Buruma.

Also in the same issue is Louisa Lim’s essay Masters of Subservience, an article about China’s ‘bureaucracy lit’ boom.

Both illustrations appeared on February 3, 2013 issue of The New York Times Book Review

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original drawing is: SOLD