Soul Mountain
by:
Gao Xingjian (author)
Mabel Lee (author)
Format: kindle
ISBN:
9780007385737
Publish date: October 7th 2010
Publisher: Flamingo
Pages no: 530
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Travel,
Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Nobel Prize,
China,
Chinese Literature
A powerful spiritual experience, coming from an author still alive!!I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the author took refuge in France, was living in an inner city project housing at the time he got the Nobel Prize. A deeply enriching story of his journey, which is at the same time enterta...
No longer determined to finish it. The abuse is too distressing. Not even Gao's fairly gorgeous prose can make up for my distress. ++++++One quarter of the way in Gao Xingjian continues to be a remarkable writer but I'm over the raping and suicide of women theme in the storytelling. He is telling th...
This book is a bit of a deaprture from my usual. I read it over 2 very long plane flights. I remember very beautiful prose, a spiritual journey, lots of tragedy but still moments of light.
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