One Man's Bible
by:
Gao Xingjian (author)
Mabel Lee (author)
One Man's Bible is a fictionalized account of Gao Xingjian's life under the Chinese Communist regime. Daily life is riddled with paranoia and fear, and government propaganda turns citizens against one another. It is a place where a single sentence spoken ten years earlier can make one an enemy of...
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One Man's Bible is a fictionalized account of Gao Xingjian's life under the Chinese Communist regime. Daily life is riddled with paranoia and fear, and government propaganda turns citizens against one another. It is a place where a single sentence spoken ten years earlier can make one an enemy of the state. But One Man's Bible is also a profound meditation on the essence of writing, on exile, on the effects of political oppression on the human spirit, and on how the human spirit can triumph.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060936266 (0060936266)
Publish date: September 16th 2003
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Roman,
Nobel Prize,
China,
Chinese Literature
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