![]() ![]() ![]() Once dead, Ximen finds himself in the underworld. ![]() Ximen Nao, an apparently generous landowner in Gaomi County, Shandong Province, China, is executed so the land he owns can be redistributed as part of Mao Zedong’s Land Reform movement of 1948. His notable works include Red Sorghum and The Republic of Wine. Mo Yan’s work is often banned and frequently pirated. Mo Yan is the pen name of Guan Moye his pseudonym means “don’t speak” in Chinese because as a child and young man his parents warned him it was dangerous to express his views. The narrative spans the history of China from 1950 to 2000 through the eyes of a man reincarnated as various animals: a donkey, an ox, a pig, a dog, a monkey, and finally a human child. Life and Death are Wearing Me Out is a 2006 novel by Chinese writer Mo Yan, first published in Chinese and translated into English by Howard Goldblatt. ![]()
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