Soul Mountain

Harper Collins, Sydney, 2003. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good Condition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 561 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages lightly tanned throughout. The book has been read and carries some marks and creases. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. 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 won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2000. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Family & Relationships; China; literature, Literary, Poetry & Drama. ISBN: 073226779x. ISBN/EAN: 9780732267797. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 7513. . 9780732267797