Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
First edition (Chinese) | |
| Author | Mo Yan |
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| Translator | Howard Goldblatt |
| Language | Chinese |
| Genre | novel |
| Publisher | (Eng. trans.) Arcade |
Publication date | 2006 |
| Publication place | China |
Published in English | 19 March 2008 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 552 pp (Eng. trans. edition) |
| ISBN | 1559708530 (Eng. trans. edition) |
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. 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, and was the recipient of the inaugural Newman Prize for Chinese Literature in 2009. An English translation was published in 2008.