El libro de un hombre solo

Synopsis of El libro de un hombre solo

«El libro de un hombre solo» is the novel by Gao Xingjian, published by Booket in paperback (540 pages, in Spanish).

A man recalls his childhood and youth in China before the Cultural Revolution and its outbreak, which turns his world into despair and terror. The novel interweaves memories, political violence, love and eroticism to portray the solitude of the individual before a regime that demands renouncing thought, though the mind remains free.

Work originally published in 1999 as «Yī gè rén de shèngjīng». Gao Xingjian received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000.

For readers of contemporary fiction and Chinese literature interested in novels about 20th-century China.