Gao Xingjian

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Soul Mountain

Beschreibung

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2000. Part travel diary, part philosophy, part love story, â Soul Mountainâ is an elegant, unforgettable novel that journeys deep into the heart of modern-day China.

Autor

Gao Xingjian ('gow shing-jen') is the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in 1940 in Jiangxi province in eastern China, he earned a degree in French in Beijing, and embarked on a life of letters. Choosing exile in 1987, he settled in Paris, where he completed 'Soul Mountain' two years later. In 1992 he was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He is a playwright and painter as well as a fiction writer and critic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins UK
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 128mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9780007119233
• ISBN-10: 0007119232
• Artikelnr.: 14715167