{"product_id":"soul-mountain","title":"Soul Mountain","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSoul Mountain\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eGao Xingjian\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780060936235\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHarper Perennial\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2001\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition: \u003c\/b\u003eUsed Copy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\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\n\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\n\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\n\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\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Soul Mountain | Gao Xingjian | Paperback | 9780060936235 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1551445","offer_id":48313038766232,"sku":"1551445","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Soul Mountain | Gao Xingjian | Paperback | 9780060936235 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1558340","offer_id":48753889935512,"sku":"1558340","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/913xwIu_1NL.jpg?v=1773160071","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/soul-mountain","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}