Tired of Being Born and Dying

Mo Yan created an astonishing world in the small village of Simentun, and through its inhabitants, presented the history of the largest events that influenced the lives of millions of people in an unusual, almost fairy-tale manner. The novel captivates with its unpredictable plot and a variety of tones—mocking, ironic, affectionate, but most importantly—human…
The book was awarded the Newman Prize in Chinese Literature. In 2012, Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for “his hallucinatory realism that merges folk tales with history and modernity.”