by Mo Yan · Kailas Editorial, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788489624610
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Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out is a novel by Chinese author Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012. The story follows Ximen Nao, an executed landowner who is sent to the underworld and condemned to be reincarnated into various animals. Through his reincarnations, the novel explores the social and political changes in rural China during the second half of the 20th century. With a masterful style and touches of humor, Mo Yan offers a critical and entertaining vision of contemporary Chinese society.
Mo Yan, born Guan Moye, is a Chinese writer. He gained attention for his 1984 novella, A Transparent Radish, and rose to international fame for his 1986 novel Red Sorghum, the first two parts of which were adapted into the Golden Bear-winning film Red Sorghum (1988). In 2012, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".
