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Item Details
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SOUL MOUNTAIN
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| By: |
Xingjian Gao, Mabel Lee (Trans) |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£5.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0007385730 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780007385737 |
| Publisher: |
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS |
| Pub. date: |
7 October, 2010 |
| Pages: |
528 |
| Translated from: |
Chinese |
| Description: |
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2000. Part travel diary, part philosophy, part love story, `Soul Mountain' is an elegant, unforgettable novel that journeys deep into the heart of modern-day China. |
| Synopsis: |
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2000. Part travel diary, part philosophy, part love story, `Soul Mountain' is an elegant, unforgettable novel that journeys deep into the heart of modern-day China.In 1982 Chinese playwright, novelist and artist Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer, the very disease that had killed his father. For six weeks Gao inhabited a transcendental state of imminent death, treating himself to the finest foods he could afford while spending time reading in an old graveyard in the Beijing suburbs. But a secondary examination revealed there was no cancer - he had won a `reprieve from death' and had been thrown back into the world of the living.Faced with a repressive cultural environment and the threat of a spell in a prison farm, Gao fled Beijing. He travelled first to the ancient forests of central China and from there to the east coast, passing through eight provinces and seven nature reserves, a journey of fifteen thousand kilometres over a period of five months. The result of this epic voyage of discovery is `Soul Mountain'.Interwoven into this picaresque journey are myriad stories and countless memorable characters - from venerable Daoist masters and Buddhist monks and nuns to mythical Wild Men; deadly Qichun snakes to farting buses. Conventions are challenged, preconceptions are thwarted and the human condition, with all its foibles and triumphs, is laid bare. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Flamingo |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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