Tracked title

Life and death are wearing me out

Mo Yan, translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt

First published 2012

About

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.

Subjects

Reincarnation
Land tenure
Landowners
Fiction
History

Edition details

Subtitle: a novel
Publisher: Arcade · Constable & Robinson [distributor]
Published: 2012
Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9781611454277