Soul Mountain
by Xingjian, Gao; Lee, Mabel (Translated by)
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060936231
- ISBN 13
- 9780060936235
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About This Item
New York: HarperPerennial; HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001. xi, 510 pages; 21 cm. First published, 1990. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. First Chinese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. "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 second 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 Moutain 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. / Gao Xingjian (whose name is pronounced gow shing-jen) is the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in 1940 in Jiangxi province in eastern China, he has lived in France since 1987. Gao Xingjian is an artistic innovator, in both the visual arts and literature. He is that rare multitalented artist who excels as novelist, playwright, essayist, director, and painter. In addition to Soul Mountain and One Man's Bible, a book of his plays, The Other Shore, and a volume of his paintings, Return to Painting, have been published in the United States." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.
Synopsis
Soul Mountain is a novel by 2000 Nobel Prize winning Chinese author Gao Xingjian, first published in Chinese in 1990. It was first published in the United States in English in December 5, 2000, and was translated by Mabel Lee. The novel is a product of the author's journey in rural areas of China, inspired by a false diagnosis of fatal lung cancer. The novel is a part autobiographical, part fictional account of a man's journey to find the fabled mountain Lingshan.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 062252
- Title
- Soul Mountain
- Author
- Xingjian, Gao; Lee, Mabel (Translated by)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060936231
- ISBN 13
- 9780060936235
- Publisher
- HarperPerennial; HarperCollinsPublishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Asian / Chinese;
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