![]() But Nao finds he isn’t himself, as he lives through successive reincarnations as a donkey, ox, pig, dog and monkey during a half-century of the Cultural Revolution, up to the beginning of the new millennium. Unable to extract the stubborn Nao’s confession of wrongdoing, Lord Yama (aka Satan) agrees to “send him back” to earth. The story begins in Hell, whose placid sadistic calm is disturbed by the bitter complaints of Ximen Nao, a prosperous landowner arrested and executed when Chairman Mao’s policy of “land reform” required the seizure of Nao’s property. ![]() This novel is every bit as rambunctious and bizarre as the summary will suggest. ![]() Epic black comedy from the inventive Chinese author ( Big Breasts and Wide Hips, 2004, etc.) frequently mentioned as a leading Nobel Prize contender. ![]()
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