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Harper
November 2001
On Sale: October 23, 2001
528 pages
ISBN: 0060936231
EAN: 9780060936235
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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.
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