A review by rdebner
Life and Death are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan

4.0

The story spans 1950-2000, following the main character through several incarnations as he observes what happens to his friends, family, and the people from his village through the changes implemented in China during that time (Communist reforms, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, and the aftermath of those changes). This approach to writing about this period in China was refreshing and entertaining.