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Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out

โœ Scribed by Yan, Mo

Book ID
100682402
Publisher
Skyhorse
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
426 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1611454271

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โœฆ Synopsis

The Nobel Prizewinning wildly visionary and creative novel of modern China from the Newman Prize winning author of Red Sorghum and The Garlic Ballads (The New York Times). In this epic black comedy benevolent landowner Ximen Nao is less than pleased to find himself in the underworld after being killed in Chairman Maos land reform movement. And even though hes unwilling to admit to any wrongdoing, he is soon punished by being send back to the mortal realm... as a donkey, an ox, a pig, a dog, a monkey, and so on (Kirkus Reviews). But in each of his reincarnations, Nao experiences another defining event in Chinas maddening national transformation under the heavy hand of Communismsuch as the Chinese Famine, the ever-changing Cultural Revolution, and the devastating failure of the Great Leap Forward. And in each new life, he finds both the humanity and the insanity of his burgeoning homeland. With this exhuberantly imaginative Chinas most revered, renowned, and feared literary artist proves once again that the only true freedom is the freedom of the heart and mind (Washington Post).
ISBN : 9781559708531

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