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Soul Mountain [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Gao Xingjian
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Special feature! This eBook edition contains "The Case for Literature," the complete text of Gao Xingjian's 2000 Nobel Lecture.
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 reprieve from death" and had been thrown back into the world of the living. Faced with a repressive cultural environment and the threat of a spell in... more info>> 2001
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One Man's Bible [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Gao Xingjian
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One Man's Bible is the second novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Gao Xingjian to appear in English. Following on the heels of his highly praised Soul Mountain, this later work is as candid as the first, and written with the same grace and beauty. In a Hong Kong hotel room in 1996, Gao Xingjian's lover, Marguerite, stirs up his memories of childhood and early adult life under the shadow of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution. Gao has been living in self-imposed exile in France and has travele... more info>> 2002
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Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather: Stories [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Gao Xingjian
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These 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. In the title story, the narrator attempts to relieve his h... more info>> 2007
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