Book #29658

Soul Mountain - 1st UK Edition/1st Printing

Gao Xingjian
Book #29658 Soul Mountain - 1st UK Edition/1st Printing. Gao Xingjian.
Soul Mountain - 1st UK Edition/1st Printing

Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: 1st UK Edition; First Printing
Publisher: London: Flamingo, 2001.
ISBN: 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.

Price: $70.00

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