Book 74: Life and Death are Wearing Me Out

Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for Literature this year, and is the first Nobel Prize-winning author to live and write in China. (A previous Chinese winner is a dissident living in France.) I knew I had to read some of his work.



This was funny, eye-opening, and occasionally disturbing, and overall a great read. It was written in a magical or hallucinatory realism style, so it was often pretty entertaining, and very strange.

While Mo Yan is not a dissident, his work does express a lot of social criticism, and some of his writing has been banned in China.