Screen LibraryLife and death are wearing me out : a novel /
Mo Yan's new novel opens in hell on January 1, 1950, nearly two years after Mao Zedong's Land Reform Movement overturned the traditional order of rural China. For those two years, Lord Yama, king of the underworld, has submitted Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his uncommon kindness to all...
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| Literature type: | Book |
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Mo Yan's new novel opens in hell on January 1, 1950, nearly two years after Mao Zedong's Land Reform Movement overturned the traditional order of rural China. For those two years, Lord Yama, king of the underworld, has submitted Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his uncommon kindness to all who worked his land, to every possible torture to make him admit the charges that led to his execution at the hands of newly empowered peasants. But even after being fried alive--the ultimate torture in hell--Ximen Nao continues to proclaim his innocence. Finally, in disgust, Lord Yama relents and allows h |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 540 p. ; 23 cm. |
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9781611454277 (pbk.) : 1611454271 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | PL2886 |
| CLC: | I247.57 |
| Call Number: | I247.57/M687-10 |