Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
By Mo Yan
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In this “epic black comedy,” benevolent landowner Ximen Nao is less than pleased to find himself in the underworld after being killed in Chairman Mao’s land reform movement. And even though he’s unwilling to admit to any wrongdoing, he is soon punished by being sent 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 China’s maddening national transformation under the heavy hand of Communism—such 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 “exuberantly imaginative” novel, China’s 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).
Mo Yan
Mo Yan (pseudónimo de Guan Moye, y que significa literalmente «no hables») nació en una familia de granjeros. Dejó la escuela muy joven, durante la Revolución Cultural, para trabajar en una fábrica. Posteriormente se alistó en el Ejército Popular de Liberación. Entre sus novelas destacan El sorgo rojo, llevada al cine por el director Zhang Yimou, La vida y la muerte me están desgastando o Grandes pechos, amplias caderas.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5There are a lot of more interesting ways to learn about recent Chinese history.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5There are a lot of more interesting ways to learn about recent Chinese history.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the most entertaining reads I've had in a long time. It reminds me of "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie. That one I read almost 40 years ago so I suppose I was ready for another to equal it.