Life and Death are Wearing Me Out

✍ Yan, Mo 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 645 KB

Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his generosity and kindness to his peasants, is not only stripped of his land and worldly possessions in Mao's Land Reform Movement of 1948, but is cruelly executed, despite his protestations of innocence. He goes to Hell, where Lord Yama, king of the underworld, has

✍ Yan, Mo 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🌐 en-US ⚖ 547 KB

Life and Death are Wearing Me Out

✍ Yan, Mo; Goldblatt, Howard 📂 Fiction 📅 2006 🏛 Arcade Publishing 🌐 en-US ⚖ 610 KB

Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his generosity and kindness to his peasants, is not only stripped of his land and worldly possessions in Mao's Land Reform Movement of 1948, but is cruelly executed, despite his protestations of innocence. He goes to Hell, where Lord Yama, king of the underworld, has

Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out

✍ Yan, Mo 📂 Fiction 📅 2006 🏛 Skyhorse 🌐 English ⚖ 426 KB 👁 1 views

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 kill

Life and Death are Wearing Me Out

✍ Mo Yan 📂 Fiction 📅 2011;2012 🏛 Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.;Arcade 🌐 en-US ⚖ 426 KB 👁 2 views

Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his generosity and kindness to his peasants, is not only stripped of his land and worldly possessions in Mao's Land Reform Movement of 1948, but is cruelly executed, despite his protestations of innocence. He goes to Hell, where Lord Yama, king of the underworld, has

Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out

✍ Yan, Mo 📂 Fiction 📅 2011;2012 🏛 Arcade Publishing 🌐 English ⚖ 424 KB 👁 2 views

Mo Yan's new novel opens in hell on January 1, 1950, nearly two years after Mao Zedong's Land Reform Movement overturned the traditional order of rural China. For those two years, Lord Yama, king of the underworld, has submitted Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his uncommon kindness to all who worke