Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out: a Novel Reprint edition

Today?s most revered, feared, and controversial Chinese novelist offers a tour de force in which the real, the absurd, the comical, and the tragic are blended into a fascinating read. The hero?or antihero?of Mo Yan?s new novel is Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his benevolence to his peasants. His story is a deliriously unique journey and absolutely riveting tale that reveals the author?s love of a homeland beset by ills inevitable, political, and traditional.