Life and Death are Wearing Me Out: A Novel

Mo Yan was born in 1955 to a peasant family in Shandong. He is the author of Red Sorghum; The Republic of Wine; Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh; and Big Breasts & Wide Hips. He has won, among other national literary prizes, China's most prestigious literary, the Annual Writer's Award. He and his family live in Beijing. Howard Goldblatt has taught modern Chinese literature and culture for more than a quarter of a century. He is the foremost translator of modern and contemporary Chinese literature in the West and a former Guggenheim Fellow.