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Gao Xingjian - Soul Mountain - 9780007119226 - KKD0006535
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Soul Mountain

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Description for Soul Mountain Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2000. Part travel diary, part philosophy, part love story, Soul Mountain is an elegant, unforgettable novel which journeys deep into the heart of modern-day China.

In 1982 Chinese playwright, novelist and artist Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer, the very disease which had killed his father. For six weeks Gao inhabited a transcendental state of imminent death, treating himself to the finest foods he could afford while spending time reading in an old graveyard in the Beijing suburbs. But a secondary examination ... Read more

Faced with a repressive cultural environment and the threat of a spell in a prison farm, Gao fled Beijing. He travelled first to the ancient forests of central China and from there to the east coast, passing through eight provinces and seven nature reserves, a journey of fifteen thousand kilometres over a period of five months. The result of this epic voyage of discovery is Soul Moutain.

Interwoven into this picaresque journey are myriad stories and countless memorable characters – from venerable Daoist masters and Buddhist monks and nuns to mythical Wild Men; deadly Qichun snakes to farting buses. Conventions are challenged, preconceptions are thwarted and the human condition, with all its foibles and triumphs, is laid bare.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007119226
SKU
KKD0006535
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian was born on 4 January 1940, in war-torn China. During the 1960s and 1970s, he wrote a number of works of prose, plays and poems, aware that what he wrote could not be published, since they failed to comply with the government's strict guidelines. He was finally able to publish a substantial number of works during the 1980s, ... Read more

Reviews for Soul Mountain
'Gao has helped illuminate the human condition for people throughout the world in ways that bring credit to him and to literary endeavour.' THES 'There is a sense throughout that Gao is running after things that are already vanishing. On the nature reserves, people are shooting bears and ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Soul Mountain


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