Soul Mountain

Nobel Prize for Literature

“If a successful novelist is one who tells us something new about the human spirit and a successful novel transports us to another world, then Gao andSoul Mountainhave succeeded spectacularly.”-Washington Post Book World

An extraordinary work of immense wisdom and profound beauty by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

In 1983 Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death. But six w...