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008 070531t20082008nyu 000 f eng
010 $a 2007022843
020 $a9781559708531 (alk. paper)
020 $a1559708530 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)138341911
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn138341911
035 $a(NNC)6497211
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050 00 $aPL2886.O1684$bS5413 2008
082 00 $a895.1/352$222
100 1 $aMo, Yan,$d1955-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86075796
240 10 $aSheng si pi lao.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007038498
245 10 $aLife and death are wearing me out :$ba novel /$cMo Yan ; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt.
250 $a1st English-language ed.
260 $aNew York :$bArcade Pub.,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $aviii, 540 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"Life and Death are Wearing Me Out opens in hell on January 1, 1950, nearly two years after Mao Zedong's Land Reform Movement overturned the traditional order of rural China. For those two years, Lord Yama, king of the underworld, has submitted Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his uncommon kindness to all who worked his land, to every possible torture to make him admit the charges that led to his execution at the hands of newly empowered peasants. But even after being fried alive - the ultimate torture in hell - Ximen Nao continues to proclaim his innocence." "Finally, in disgust, Lord Yama relents and allows him to return to earth, to his former landholdings in impoverished Shandong. But when he arrives there, he finds to his dismay that he has been reborn not as a man but as a donkey, and it is through this animal's eyes that he witnesses the fates of his former family, friends, rivals, and enemies. Subsequent reincarnations find him as an ox, a pig, a dog, a monkey, and finally a large-headed boy with an uncanny memory and a great gift for language. Through the earthy perspective of each of these characters - as wells as of author Mo Yan himself, who frequently interrupts to comment on the events - this novel narrates the past fifty years of China's tumultuous history."--BOOK JACKET.
700 1 $aGoldblatt, Howard,$d1939-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81063185
852 00 $beal$hPL2886.O1684$iS5413 2008