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Life and Death are Wearing Me Out

Written by: Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt - translator
Narrated by: Feodor Chin
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Today’s most revered, feared, and controversial Chinese novelist, Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan, offers a tour de force in which the real, the absurd, the comical, and the tragic are blended into a fascinating narrative. 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.
©2006 Mo Yan. English-language translation copyright 2008, 2012 by Howard Goldblatt (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
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"A wildly visceral and creative novel.... A vast, cruel, and complex story." (The New York Times Book Review)

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Very interesting story with amazing characters

this is heartbreaking story to reflect China society under Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule where common people lived like animals and suffered from various CCP political movements from 1950s to 2000s, which is still prevailing now such as Covid 19 pandemic 😞

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Go independant farmers

From one 'last' independent farmer to another. if you understand what I mean this book will make you so happy. Free and independant.

The only distaste was left by the tacit acceptance of the Mao, desite it all.

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