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.
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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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