Book summaryIn this 1989 novel by 2000 Nobel Prize-winning author Gao, translated here into English, the author documents his wild, picaresque journey through China's remote provinces. Encountering priests, villagers, rangers, and gymnasts, Gao found the journey to be a postmodern wayfaring into his memory. Media reviews"[A] brilliant, maddening sprawl of a novel....The Chinese communist censors were right to worry about Gao when they banned his work nearly 20 years ago: In this book, as in his earlier writings, he not only exposes the abuses of communism; he questions whether a soul bitten by a communist loneliness can ever be whole again....Make no mistake: This is no easy book, no Voltairean escapade with charming side stories that reveal a colorful land and its people. Gao means the reader to work hard, juggle the myriad components, follow his contrapuntal sequences, puzzle through the conundrums...[but] if a successful novelist is one who tells us something new about the human spirit and a successful novel transports us to another world, then Gao and SOUL MOUNTAIN have succeeded spectacularly." |
Soul Mountainby GAO Xingjian
Book description: NY: HarperCollins. As New in As New dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0066210828 . The acclaimed novel by the 2000 winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. Translated from the Chinese and with an introduction by Mabel Lee. First printing of the American edition. As new in like dust jacket. .
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