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Cargando... La vida y la muerte me están desgastando (2006)por Mo Yan
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El terrateniente Ximen Nao es ejecutado y baja al inframundo, donde le condenan de forma ilícita a reencarnarse en un burro. Así comienza un inesperado ciclo de vidas, muertes y transmigraciones en distintos animales, pero sólo en el exterior, porque su mente y sus recuerdos siguen siendo los del hombre que era antes de morir. El terrateniente Ximen Nao es ejecutado y baja al inframundo, donde le condenan de forma ilicita a reencarnarse en un burro. Así empieza un inesperado ciclo de vidas, muertes y transmigraciones en distintos animales, pero sólo en el exterior, porque su mente y sus recuerdos siguen siendo los del hombre que era antes de morir.
After finally making it through Life and Death — a battle as hard-fought as the one between humans and pigs in the middle of the novel — I’m not able to say that I enjoyed the book, though parts of it kept me engaged enough to consider picking up another of Mo Yan’s works…someday. Maybe. PremiosListas de sobresalientes
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HTML:The Newman Prize??winning "wildly visionary and creative novel" of modern China from the Nobel Prize??winning author of Red Sorghum and The Garlic Ballads (The New York Times). In this "epic black comedy," benevolent landowner Ximen Nao is less than pleased to find himself in the underworld after being killed in Chairman Mao's land reform movement. And even though he's unwilling to admit to any wrongdoing, he is soon punished by being sent back to the mortal realm . . . as a donkey, an ox, a pig, a dog, a monkey, and so on (Kirkus Reviews). But in each of his reincarnations, Nao experiences another defining event in China's maddening national transformation under the heavy hand of Communism??such as the Chinese Famine, the ever-changing Cultural Revolution, and the devastating failure of the Great Leap Forward. And in each new life, he finds both the humanity and the insanity of his burgeoning homeland. With this "exuberantly imaginative" novel, China's most revered, renowned, and feared literary artist proves once again that the only true freedom is the freedom of the heart and mind (Washington P No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)895.1352Literature Literature of other languages Asian (east and south east) languages Chinese Chinese fiction Modern period 1912–2010 1949–2010Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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