In 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 Soul Mountain.

Bold, lyrical, and prodigious, Soul Mountain 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.

Title: Soul Mountain

Series: n/a

Author: Gao Xingjian

Translated by: Mabel Lee

Hardcover: 510 pages

Printing: 1st (First U.S. Edition Stated)

Publisher: Harper Collins(2000)

Language: English

Condition: Fine (See Condition Notes)

Condition Notes: 1st Edition 1st Print Hardcover with unclipped jacket, in fine condition. Brown and tan boards with gilt lettering. Gently read. Text and pages clean and unmarked. Jacket protected by an archival book cover.