{"product_id":"soul-mountain-by-gao-xingjian","title":"'Soul Mountain' by Gao Xingjian","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"289\" data-end=\"683\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-start=\"301\" data-end=\"316\"\u003eSoul Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e is Gao Xingjian’s great wandering novel.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"289\" data-end=\"683\"\u003eAfter a serious illness and a false diagnosis, the narrator leaves Beijing and travels through the forests, mountains and remote villages of southern and south-western China, searching for the elusive place called Lingshan — Soul Mountain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"685\" data-end=\"1063\"\u003eIt is a long, shifting meditation on selfhood, landscape, exile, memory, erotic desire, myth and political disillusionment. Gao moves between “I”, “you”, “he” and “she”, dissolving the stable narrator as he goes. A major work of experimental world literature from the first Chinese-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"685\" data-end=\"1063\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback edition published by Harper Perennial in 2004. First published as \u003cem data-start=\"1172\" data-end=\"1182\"\u003eLingshan\u003c\/em\u003e in Taiwan in 1990. Translated from the Chinese by Mabel Lee. Good used condition with light shelf wear and handling to covers and edges. Good reading copy. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45345358774355,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-06-05T133047.172.png?v=1780630280","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/soul-mountain-by-gao-xingjian","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}