viii, 540 pp. Translated into English from the original Chinese by Howard Goldblatt. Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012. Mo Yan's Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out is a remarkable story. The absurd, real, comical, and tragic are combined into a fantastic read. The hero - or antihero - is Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his kindness to his peasants. His tale is a heart-wrenching and unique journey and completely riveting tale that shares the author's love of a homeland caught by ills political, traditional, and inevitable.
