In literary real estate news
From Bookforum’s Paper Trail:
In honor of Chinese writer Mo Yan’s recent Nobel victory, Communist party officials have decided to convert Mo’s childhood home into a cultural theme park. According to the Beijing News, local officials visited the Mo house last week and informed the family that they needed to renovate their home to accommodate the “Mo Yan Culture Experience Zone.” On a related note, after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature last week, Mo told reporters that he planned to use the $1.4 million to buy a “big house” in Beijing, before he realized that current real estate prices would only permit him to buy an apartment.
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