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Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian Hardcover Nobel Prize for Literature
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like new
- Seller notes
- “Pristine pages. Minor shelf wear on cover. NEVER READ. Binding is tight.”
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Type
- Novel
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Book Series
- Soul Mountain
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- ISBN
- 9780066210827
- Book Title
- Soul Mountain
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.6 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Family Life, Literary, Historical
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Item Weight
- 30.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 528 Pages
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Product Information
In 1983 Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian (pronounced gow shing-jen) 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 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 traveled to the remote mountains and ancient forests of Sichuan in southwest China and from there back to the east coast, a journey of fifteen thousand kilometers over a period of five months. The results 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 the myriad of stories and countless memorable characters -- from venerable Daosit masters and Buddhist nuns to mythical Wild Men, deadly Qichun snakes, and farting buses -- is the narrator's poignant inner journey and search for freedom. Fleeing the social conformity required by the Communist government, he wanders deep into the regions of the Qiang, Miago, and Yi peoples located on the fringes of Han Chinese civilization and discovers a plethora of different traditions, history, legends, folk songs, and landscapes. Slowly, with the help of memory, imagination, and sensory experience, he reconstructs his personal past. He laments the impact of the Cultural Revolution on the ecology -- both human and physical -- of China. And in a polyphony of narrating selves -- the narrator's "I" spawns a "you," a "she," and a "he," each with a distinct perspective and voice -- the novel delights in the freedom of the imagination to expand the notion of the individual self. Storytelling saves the narrator from a deep loneliness that is part of the human condition. His search for meaning -- in life, in the journey -- turns up the possibility that there may be no meaning. The elusive Lingshan ("Soul Mountain"), which becomes the object of his quest, never yields up its secrets, but the journey is a rich, strange, provocative, and rewarding one. Soul Mountain is a novel of immense wisdom and profound beauty.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0066210828
ISBN-13
9780066210827
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1806295
Product Key Features
Book Title
Soul Mountain
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Family Life, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2000
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
528 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
30.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pl2869.O128l5613
Reviews
"A true work of great literature." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Remarkable not only for its magical tales, folkloric roots and eroticism but also for its patchwork of narrative styles, from poems and monologues to ballads and conversations...Lyrical." -- New York Times "If a successful novelist is one who tells us something new about the human spirit and a successful novel transports us to another world, then Gao and Soul Mountain have succeeded spectacularly." -- Washington Post Book World "Chinese literature [of the future] will have to contend with the creative energy and the daring of Gao Xingjian." -- Le Monde "It is a relief to come to a book that celebrates the pleasures of literature with such gusto and knowingness." -- Publishers Weekly "Engaging and elegant...Soul Mountain is a quirky, thick, playful monster of a book, a bit like what one might expect if Beckett or Ionesco had traveled in China and been steeped in Chinese myths." -- New York Times Book Review
Copyright Date
2000
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2001-269378
Dewey Decimal
895.1/352
Dewey Edition
21
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