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Soul Mountain

of Gao Xingjian, Mabel Lee (Translator)

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In 1983, Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death. But six weeks later, a second examination revealed there was no cancer -- he had won "a reprieve from death." Faced with a repressive cultural environment and the threat of a spell in a prison farm, Gao fled Beijing and began a journey of 15,000 kilometers into the remote mountains and ancient forests of Sichuan in southwest China. The result of this epic voyage of discovery is Soul Mountain.Bold, lyrical, and prodigious, Soul Mountain probes the human soul with an uncommon directness and candor and delights in the freedom of the imagination to expand the notion of the individual self.

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Book Details

  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 510 pages
  • Publisher Harper Perennial
  • Publication Date October 23rd 2001
  • First Publication 10/30/89
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780060936235
  • Edition Not informed
  • Category Fiction
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