{"product_id":"soul-mountain-paperback","title":"Soul Mountain - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGao Xingjian\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"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 \u003cem\u003eSoul Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e have succeeded spectacularly.\" -- \u003cem\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn extraordinary work of immense wisdom and profound beauty by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003cem\u003eSoul Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bold, lyrical, prodigious novel, \u003cem\u003eSoul Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e probes the human soul with an uncommon directness and candor. Interwoven with a myriad of stories and countless memorable characters--from venerable Daoist 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003cem\u003eSoul Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBold, lyrical, and prodigious, \u003cem\u003eSoul Moutain\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 528\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.1 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 23, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47257422332153,"sku":"9780060936235","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/hECWP81PUv9780060936235.webp?v=1768748888","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/soul-mountain-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}