Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out is a 2006 novel by the Chinese writer Mo Yan, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012. The book is a historical fiction exploring China's development during the latter half of the 20th century through the eyes of a noble and generous landowner who is killed and reincarnated as various farm animals in rural China. It has drawn praise from critics, was the recipient of the inaugural Newman Prize for Chinese Literature in 2009, and an English translation was published in 2008. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Why is Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out told through animals?
Ximen Nao is reincarnated as a series of animals and keeps his memories of past lives.
The narrator is Ximen Nao, a landlord known for being unusually kind to those less fortunate than him, who is nonetheless executed for being a landlord. After being tortured in hell for two years, he is reincarnated into a series of animals: a donkey, an ox, a pig, a dog and briefly a monkey. Unusually, he retains his memories of past lives.
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The book is a historical fiction exploring China's development during the latter half of the 20th century through the eyes of a noble and generous landowner who is killed and reincarnated as various farm animals in rural China.
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is a 2006 novel by Chinese writer Mo Yan, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012.
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Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (simplified Chinese: 生死疲劳; traditional Chinese: 生死疲勞; pinyin: shēngsǐ píláo) is a 2006 novel by Chinese writer Mo Yan, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012.
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