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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 the cancer was gone, and he was 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 and began a journey of 15,000 kilometers over a period of five months. The result of this epic voyage of discovery is Soul Mountain.
A bold, lyrical, prodigious novel, Soul Mountain probes the human soul with an uncommon directness and candor. Interwoven with a myriad
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Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Release date: 23 October 2001
ISBN-10 : 0060936231 | ISBN-13: 9780060936235
Release date: 23 October 2001
ISBN-10 : 0060936231 | ISBN-13: 9780060936235
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