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Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan (2008, Hardcover) 
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan (2008, Hardcover)

 
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan (2008, Hardcover)

Author: Mo Yan
Publisher: Arcade Pub
Publication Date: 2008-03-19
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1559708530
ISBN-13: 9781559708531
Product ID: EPID60198582
Description: In the wake of the Communist revolution, honest landowner Ximen Nao is shot to death. Protesting his fate to Yama, lord of the underworld, he strikes a deal by which he is reincarnated as a series of animals--a donkey, ox, pig, dog, and ...
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In the wake of the Communist revolution, honest landowner Ximen Nao is shot to death. Protesting his fate to Yama, lord of the underworld, he strikes a deal by which he is reincarnated as a series of animals--a donkey, ox, pig, dog, and monkey--on his way to eventually being reborn as a human. These animals (each a version of Nao himself, and each, amazingly, with its own distinctive voice) serve as the narrators of Mo Yan's rich, outlandish, tawdry, hilarious, and cruel novel that charts the history of Communist China with an outrageous flair rare to Eastern or Western literature. Famine, catastrophe, and idiocy become commonplace in the years from 1950 to the present, and the novel spares nothing and no one in its savage critique--not Chairman Mao, not the rise of modern Chinese capitalism, not even the author himself. LIFE AND DEATH ARE WEARING ME OUT is an astonishing, side-splitting, and mind-boggling epic, perhaps the first salvo in a revolution in Chinese literature.

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Publication Date:2008-03-19

Size
Length:540 pages
Height:9.5 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:32.0 oz

Publisher's Note
Stripped of his possessions and executed as a result of Mao's Land Reform Movement in 1948, benevolent landowner Ximen Nao finds himself endlessly tortured in Hell before he is systematically reborn on Earth as each of the animals in the Chinese zodiac.

Industry Reviews
"[Although] the political dramas narrated by Mo Yan are historically faithful to the currently known record, LIFE AND DEATH remains a wildly visionary and creative novel, constantly mocking and rearranging itself and jolting the reader with its own internal commentary. This is politics as pathology."
(05/04/2008)

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