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生死疲劳

by Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt

Cover of 生死疲劳
Popularity 19

Stripped of his possessions and executed as a result of Mao's Land Reform Movement in 1948, benevolent landowner Ximen Nao finds himself endlessly tortured in Hell before he is systematically reborn on Earth as each of the animals in the Chinese zodiac.

ReincarnationLand tenureLandownersFictionHistoryFantasy fictionChinese fictionTranslations into EnglishFiction, historicalChina, fiction