Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
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Stripped of his possessions and executed as a result of Mao's Land Reform Movement in 1948, benevolent landowner Ximen Nao finds himself endlessly tortured in Hell before he is systematically reborn on Earth as each of the animals in the Chinese zodiac.
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FictionChinaHistorical FictionNobel PrizeChinese LiteratureFantasyAsiaLiteratureNovelsHistorical
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