Mo Yan

A Novel

Life and Death are Wearing Me Out

cedar winslow

listen, this book is long. really long. and honestly I didn’t have a great time reading it. HOWEVER! the messages and understanding of the world that i took away from it were incredibly impactful. themes of fatalism and humanism and buddhism and humor all intermingle and result in a beautiful way of seeing the world, which is very similar to the way i see the world. it’s nice to see it expressed in literature, in a more articulate way than i could. that being said, i probably won’t reread this book, rather seek out similar themes in a less dense novel

Phil James

One of the most entertaining reads I've had in a long time. It reminds me of "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie. That one I read almost 40 years ago so I suppose I was ready for another to equal it.

Marie

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.

Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out

Kaycee

One of the Nobel Prize Winners in Literature Ideal for fans of Chinese Playground, We Are Party People, Death of Me, Skate with Me, A Farmer’s Life for Me, and similar works Written by today’s most revered, controversial, and feared Chinese novelist Mo Yan’s Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out is a remarkable story. The absurd, real, comical, and tragic are combined into a fantastic read. The hero—or antihero—is Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his kindness to his peasants. His tale is a heart-wrenching and unique journey and completely riveting tale that shares the author’s love of a homeland caught by ills political, traditional, and inevitable.

Life and Death are Wearing Me Out A Novel

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