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Soul Mountain - 1st UK Edition/1st Printing
by Xingjian, Gao
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0007119224
- ISBN 13
- 9780007119226
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Flamingo. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. 1st UK Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0007119224 . A beautiful first UK edition/first printing in unread Fine condition. Signed by author and Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian directly on the title page. Published about ten years after the original publication was issued in Chinese (Taipei). Translated from the Chinese by Mabel Lee; Gao Xingjian's novel Soul Mountain followed a 10-month walking tour along the Yangtze River, taken after a misdiagnosis of deadly lung cancer. The author used the time wandering in search of his spiritual identity and afterwards returned to write Soul Mountain, a chronicle of Xingjian's journey of self-discovery in the middle of Communist China. Gao Xingjian was awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000; 8vo; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
Soul Mountain is a novel by 2000 Nobel Prize winning Chinese author Gao Xingjian, first published in Chinese in 1990. It was first published in the United States in English in December 5, 2000, and was translated by Mabel Lee. The novel is a product of the author's journey in rural areas of China, inspired by a false diagnosis of fatal lung cancer. The novel is a part autobiographical, part fictional account of a man's journey to find the fabled mountain Lingshan.
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29658
- Title
- Soul Mountain - 1st UK Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Xingjian, Gao
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st UK Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0007119224
- ISBN 13
- 9780007119226
- Publisher
- Flamingo
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Nobel Prize Laureate Laureates
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