Soul Mountain
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Author: Gao Xingjian
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 560
After a misdiagnosis of lung cancer and a brush with political persecution, a writer flees the suffocating weight of Beijing and sets out alone into the remote wilderness of southern China. What follows is less a journey than a dissolution — of self, of certainty, of the boundary between the narrator and the voices he carries within him. Moving between "I," "you," and "she," Gao Xingjian's landmark novel wanders through ancient forests, vanishing folk traditions, and the dreams and desires of strangers encountered along the way, all in search of a mythical place called Lingshan — Soul Mountain.
Lyrical, digressive, and profoundly free, Soul Mountain is at once a travel narrative, a meditation on solitude and freedom, and an act of literary defiance against every force — political or spiritual — that would reduce a human life to a single, fixed identity. The book that helped earn Gao the Nobel Prize in Literature, it remains one of the most singular achievements in world fiction.
Genre: Fiction
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Gao Xingjian
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 560
After a misdiagnosis of lung cancer and a brush with political persecution, a writer flees the suffocating weight of Beijing and sets out alone into the remote wilderness of southern China. What follows is less a journey than a dissolution — of self, of certainty, of the boundary between the narrator and the voices he carries within him. Moving between "I," "you," and "she," Gao Xingjian's landmark novel wanders through ancient forests, vanishing folk traditions, and the dreams and desires of strangers encountered along the way, all in search of a mythical place called Lingshan — Soul Mountain.
Lyrical, digressive, and profoundly free, Soul Mountain is at once a travel narrative, a meditation on solitude and freedom, and an act of literary defiance against every force — political or spiritual — that would reduce a human life to a single, fixed identity. The book that helped earn Gao the Nobel Prize in Literature, it remains one of the most singular achievements in world fiction.