{"title":"Gao Xingjian","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"soul-mountain-paperback","title":"Soul Mountain - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"If a successful novelist is one who tells us something new about the human spirit and a successful novel transports us to another world, then Gao and \u003cem\u003eSoul Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e have succeeded spectacularly.\" -- \u003cem\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn extraordinary work of immense wisdom and profound beauty by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1983 Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death. But six weeks later, a second examination revealed the cancer was gone, and he was thrown back into the world of the living. Faced with a repressive cultural environment and the threat of a spell in a prison farm, Gao fled Beijing and began a journey of 15,000 kilometers over a period of five months. The result of this epic voyage of discovery is \u003cem\u003eSoul Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bold, lyrical, prodigious novel, \u003cem\u003eSoul Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e probes the human soul with an uncommon directness and candor. Interwoven with a myriad of stories and countless memorable characters--from venerable Daoist masters and Buddhist nuns to mythical Wild Men, deadly Qichun snakes, and farting buses--is the narrator's poignant inner journey and search for freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1983, Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death.But six weeks later, a second examination revealed there was no cancer--he had won \"a second reprieve from death.\" Faced with a repressive cultural environment and the threat of a spell in a prison farm, Gao fled Beijing and began a journey of 15,000 kilometers into the remote mountains and ancient forests of Sichuan in southwest China. The result of this epic voyage of discovery is \u003cem\u003eSoul Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBold, lyrical, and prodigious, \u003cem\u003eSoul Moutain\u003c\/em\u003e probes the human soul with an uncommon directness and candor and delights in the freedom of the imagination to expand the notion of the individual self.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104420991199,"sku":"9780060936235","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/hECWP81PUv9780060936235.webp?v=1781108271"},{"product_id":"buying-a-fishing-rod-for-my-grandfather-stories-paperback","title":"Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Precisely detailed and delicately suggestive: the best work of Gao's yet to appear in English translation.\"--Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA collection of six exquisite short stories from Gao Xingjian, the first Chinese writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. T\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ehese beautifully translated stories take as their themes the fragility of love and life, and the haunting power of memory.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"The Temple,\" the narrator's acute and mysterious anxiety overshadows the delirious happiness of an outing with his new wife on their honeymoon. In \"The Cramp\" a man narrowly escapes drowning in the sea, only to find that no one even noticed his absence. In the title story the narrator attempts to relieve his homesickness only to find that he is lost in a labyrinth of childhood memories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverywhere in this collection are powerful psychological portraits of characters whose unarticulated hopes and fears betray the never-ending presence of the past in their present lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese six stories by Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian transport the reader to moments where the fragility of love and life, and the haunting power of memory, are beautifully unveiled. In \"The Temple,\" the narrator's acute and mysterious anxiety overshadows the delirious happiness of an outing with his new wife on their honeymoon. In \"The Cramp,\" a man narrowly escapes drowning in the sea, only to find that no one even noticed his absence. 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