《丰乳肥臀》是最引人注目的一部小说，书中整个地贯串了女性视角，对大跃进和1960年的大饥荒作出了令人锥心的细节描述。他揶揄妄图拿公兔给母羊配种的革命派伪科学试验，而在当时，凡对此类事情表示怀疑的人都会被打成右派。小说以新资本主义勃兴的90年代作结，那时候某些靠出售美容品发了大财的骗子们仍妄图通过杂交的方法养出凤凰。
In Mo Yan, a forgotten peasant world arises, alive and well, before our eyes, sensually scented even in its most pungent vapours, startlingly merciless but tinged by joyful selflessness. Never a dull moment. The author knows everything and can describe everything – all kinds of handicraft, smithery, construction, ditch-digging, animal husbandry, the tricks of guerrilla bands.
He seems to carry all human life on the tip of his pen.
