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Gao Xingjian was awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature "for an uvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama."
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SusanJazzMonty
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"Soul Mountain" is at once a lyrical, deep and mysterious novel. There are multiple stories embedded in the one allowing the reader to experience both ancient and modern China. The character development is sweet with a bit of harshness, just enough to remind the reader that the Chinese people have troubles that go beyond what we America can truly comprehend. This is one of the few books I can read again and again as with each reading there is an even greater understanding of the world getting to and living with the need for " Soul Mountain".
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Wonderfully written book. The way he writes makes you an adventurer along for the ride. Such a great style which I have never experienced before.
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A dreamy journey through the disappearing Chinese towns and countryside that the author visits as part of the inward exploration of his past. Wonderful.
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It is true that readers of "Soul Mountain" will not lose themselves in narrative, and for a long book, this may make picking it up a daunting proposition. It has many charms, however. We are transported to a mountainside in China; I could nearly smell the earth and the clean air. From village to village we travel with Gao Xingjian as first person, second person (singular), and third person (male and female). At one moment we are in a small village shoulder-to-shoulder with the locals, drinking, dancing, laughing; the next moment we are alone together, thinking, among trees. Gao Xingjian has a way of laying words down: slipping what seems an easy thought right into the brain where it unravels and becomes profound. Perhaps he's always had such a gift; perhaps his gift arrived after a misdiagnosis of terminal lung cancer was discovered and he set off to find Soul Mountain. Not only did I find the novel worthwhile, but if I'm still around, I'd like to read it again in a few decades.
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ISBN:
9780060936235
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
10/23/2001
Publisher:
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
Pages:
528
Height:
1.20IN
Width:
5.50IN
Thickness:
.75
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2001
Series Volume:
350
UPC Code:
2800060936237
Author:
Gao Xingjian
Translator:
Mabel Lee
Author:
Mabel Lee
Author:
Xingjian Gao
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Meaning (philosophy)
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Subject:
China Description and travel.
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Fiction
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