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Moves between the nightmare of the Cultural Revolution insanities in the China of the late 1960s and early 1970s to the tentative, limited liberations of the 1990s.
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Gao Xingjian was born in 1940 in Jiangxi province in eastern China, and has lived in France since 1987. Gao is considered an artistic innovator in his native China, both in the visual arts and in literature. He is that rare multi-talented artist who excels as a novelist, playwright, essayist, director and painter. Two novels, the internationally best-selling `Soul Mountain' and `One Man's Bible', are available in English, as well as a collection of short stories, `Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather' and a volume of his art entitled `Return to Painting'.
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`Brilliant and poetic, keen and original...Gao has written a book drenched in the political turmoil in China. But his ambition is to transcend the specifics of time and place, to write a meditation on literature itself and its ability to reveal the raging, brutal, brilliant beast that is mankind..."One Man's Bible" burns with a powerfully individualistic fire of intelligence and depth of feeling...Unforgettable.' New York Times `An absorbing historical primer on the decades of Maoist terror...Both more personal and more political than its predecessor, "Soul Mountain", "One Man's Bible" is a Chinese variation on an important global literary theme: the desperate quest by those living under dictatorships of all kinds to escape the crushing forces of totalitarian collectivism.' TLS `Everything a novel should be...Like all good novelists Gao creates a world, not as a kind of wallpaper or filling but as a place in which the protagonist suffers and sometimes is happy.' Literary Review `Dreamlike, elegant and haunting.' Boston Globe
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- PublisherHarper Collins
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0732274745
- ISBN 13 9780732274740
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 412 pages. Uncorrected proofNovel based on events of the Chin ese Cultural Revolution (1966-76). Thirty years later in Hong Kon g, a man is persuaded to talk to a beautiful German Jew named Mar garethe about memories of China he has long suppressed. He traces his path through the perilous times and examines his relationshi ps. Themes examined are human reactions in the face of calamity a nd love and desire. Author was born in eastern China and has a de gree in French settling in Paris in 1987. He received the 2000 No bel Prize for Literature for 'Soul Mountain'. The translator is A ssociate Professor of Chinese Studies at Sydney University and al so translated 'Soul Mountain'. In 2001 she was awarded the New So uth Wales Premier's Prize for Translation and the PEN Medallion. Seller Inventory # 2365q
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Book Description Condition: Good. Novel based on events of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76). Thirty years later in Hong Kong, a man is persuaded to talk to a beautiful German Jew named Margarethe about memories of China he has long suppressed. He traces his path through the perilous times and examines his relationships. Themes examined are human reactions in the face of calamity and love and desire. Author was born in eastern China and has a degree in French settling in Paris in 1987. He received the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature for 'Soul Mountain'. The translator is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Sydney University and also translated 'Soul Mountain'. In 2001 she was awarded the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Translation and the PEN Medallion. 412 pages. Seller Inventory # 1339263
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Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 412 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. In fine unread condition. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post. Moving between the nightmare of the Cultural Revolution and the tentative, limited liberties of the China of the 1990s, One Man s Bible weaves memories of a Beijing boyhood and amorous encounters in Hong Kong with a fictionalized account of Gao Xingjian's life under the communist regime where a single sentence spoken ten years earlier can make one an enemy of the state. A fluid, elegant exploration of memory, This novel is a profound meditation on the essence of writing and exile, on the effects of political oppression on the human spirit and on how that spirit can triumph. Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2000. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Historical fiction; China; 20th century; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0732274745. ISBN/EAN: 9780732274740. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10100. Seller Inventory # 10100
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