Life and death are wearing me out
Subtitle: a novel
By: Mo Yan ; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt
Contributors: Goldblatt, Howard, 1939-
Publisher: Arcade; Constable & Robinson [distributor]
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY; London, Eng
Language: eng
Number of pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9781611454277
Subjects: Reincarnation; Land tenure; Landowners; Fiction; History
Work titles: Sheng si pi lao
Description: 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.
Notes: Translated from the Chinese.