Soul Mountain » (Reprint)

Esteemed Chinese novelist, dramatist, director, critic, and artist, Gao Xingjian was honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000. His controversial plays blend ancient Chinese dramatic traditions with modern Western influences, and they have been banned in China.

Special feature! This e-book 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.

Los Angeles Times Book Review

Gao's wanderer....has found survival ... in words. And ultimately, it is the miracle of those words that wins Nobels.