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Flamingo, Sydney, 2002. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 412 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. In fine unread condition. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. Moving between the nightmare of the Cultural Revolution and the tentative, limited liberties of the China of the 1990s, One Mans Bible weaves memories of a Beijing boyhood and amorous encounters in Hong Kong with a fictionalized account of Gao Xingjian's life under the communist regime where a single sentence spoken ten years earlier can make one an enemy of the state. A fluid, elegant exploration of memory, This novel is a profound meditation on the essence of…
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Soul Mountain
by Xingjian, Gao
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Soul Mountain
by Xingjian, Gao
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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…
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