by Gao Xingjian · Flamingo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007119233
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«Soul Mountain» is the novel by Nobel Literature laureate Gao Xingjian, published by Flamingo in paperback (528 pages, in English).
After a false diagnosis of lung cancer, the narrator travels fifteen thousand miles through China on a journey mixing reportage, philosophy and love. Across eight provinces and seven nature reserves, he encounters Taoist masters, Buddhist monks and legendary figures, while Chinese culture and its memory of the twentieth century surface in the narrative.
Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000; this New ed edition, translated from the Chinese by Mabel Lee, was published in 2001.
For readers of contemporary Chinese fiction and literary fiction in translation.
Gao Xingjian is a Chinese émigré and later French naturalized novelist, playwright, critic, painter, photographer, film director, and translator who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity." He is also a noted translator, screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter.
