Life and death are exhausting

◆ You won’t know until you read it, Mo Yan is really humorous! Laughing out loud in the midst of extreme pain will bring you relief from the depths of your heart.
◆ Mo Yan: "The Nobel Prize judges gave me the prize mainly because they had read Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out."
◆ No matter how boring your life is, you will laugh out loud when you open this book.
◆ Includes a new preface to the reprint, a cartoon portrait of Mo Yan, and Mo Yan’s inscription, so you can learn about the story behind the creation of this book!
◆ Specially sorted out the character relationship diagram to clearly present the relationship between the main characters!
◆ 5 original illustrations, recreating the essence of the book’s scenes!
【Content Introduction】
You won’t know until you see it, you will feel like crying and laughing at the same time. Life is not easy, humor is priceless. - Mo Yan Ximen Nao has experienced six reincarnations in fifty years.
In the first life, he was a donkey, in the second life, he was a cow, in the third life, he was a pig, in the fourth life, he was a dog, in the fifth life, he was a monkey, and finally he was born as a human.
In these six lives, he witnessed three generations of Lan Lian's family going through the hardships of life and death.
They love to the end, hate to the end, are stubborn to the end, and do what they want to do.
There is extreme pain and also complete indulgence.
Their story begins on January 1, 1950...
2012 Nobel Prize in Literature Award Ceremony: Mo Yan is one of the writers of his generation whose writing is more witty and shocking, following Rabelais, Swift and, in our time, García Márquez.
【Media Comments】
In my sixteen years as a member of the Chinese Academy of Literature, no one's work has moved me as much as Mo Yan's. Among living writers, Mo Yan is not only the best in China but also in the world.
—Per Westerberg (Chairman of the Nobel Prize in Literature Committee)
◆After reading Mo Yan's works, I was deeply moved. His literary expression techniques and descriptions of life gave me a lot of new things.
— Kenzaburo Ōe (Nobel Prize winner in Literature)
"Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out" possesses the voice of a storyteller, a voice that itself embodies a worldview—a holistic approach distinct from the Western tradition. In classical Chinese fiction, everything revolves like a cycle: long separations must reunite, long reunions must separate. Man does not fight against his world or escape from it. Fundamentally, he bears, shares, and embodies the world's fate. Characters carry their entire world with them as they act, live, and die.
—Li Jingze, Vice Chairman of the China Writers Association ◆I truly love all of Mo Yan's novels and have enjoyed translating them. I enjoy them for a variety of reasons. "Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out" is a brilliant long-form fable.
——Howard Goldblatt◆If China has a Kafka, he is Mo Yan.
——Publishers Weekly

2022-01-01

浙江文艺出版社

Duoke Culture

584

9787533966102