Shengsi Pilao
生死疲劳 (lit. "Life and Death are Wearing Me Out")
Translated into English as Life and Death are Wearing Me Out, by Howard Goldblatt.
In keeping with Mo Yan's characteristic themes, 生死疲劳 is a story of peasants' lives between 1950 and 2000, narrated by an executed landlord who returns to the world reincarnated as a series of humble animals.