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Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out - A Novel by Mo Yan; Howard Goldblatt (Translator)
Category: Fiction
Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his generosity and kindness to his peasants, is not only stripped of his land and worldly possessions in Mao's Land Reform Movement of 1948, but is cruelly executed, despite his protestations of innocence. He goes to Hell, where Lord Yama, king of the underworld, has Xim ...Show more
The Garlic Ballads - A Novel by Mo Yan; Howard Goldblatt
Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE 2012 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE. The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and gov ...Show more
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