Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out in Bloomington, MN

One of the Nobel Prize Winners in Literature
Ideal for fans of
Chinese Playground, We Are Party People, Death of Me, Skate with Me, A Farmer’s Life for Me,
and similar works
Written by today’s most revered, controversial, and feared Chinese novelist
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.