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Loading... Life and Death are Wearing Me Out (2006)by Mo Yan
None. Wonderfully funny book (  ) wbwilburn5 | Jan 28, 2013 |  This is a terrific read – a big view of the second half of 20th-Century China, but lightly told in terms of a small rural town and beings, not all human, in it that you care about. (Why are these novels always called “sweeping” in reviews?) Mo Yan is not afraid to step slightly over the boundaries of reality as we usually understand it, but it is well done, and I didn’t have any problem following along. The author has been compared to Marquez, but he reminds me more of Mark Helprin. The translation is never stilted and I quickly forgot the original was written (with brush and ink, I read) in Chinese. This was the first of Mo Yan’s novels that I’ve read, but I will certainly catch up on his earlier works. ( )1  Larxol | Jul 14, 2008 | no reviews | add a review
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