Soul Mountain (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)

A$180 · Offered by Harry Hartog Rare Books

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GAO, Xingjian (trans. Mabel Lee). Soul Mountain. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2006. Octavo. Full deep green leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt design, lettering and fore-edges. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 510 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special preliminary page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, Collector's Notes, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published in Chinese as 靈山 ( Lingshan ), Taipei: Lianjing Publishing Company, 1990. First English translation by Mabel Lee, Sydney: HarperCollins Australia, 2000. Gao Xingjian (b. 1940) is a novelist, playwright, and painter who was born in Ganzhou in Jiangxi Province and educated in Beijing. During the Cultural Revolution he was sent to a re-education camp for six years and spent time burning his own manuscripts to avoid persecution. He emerged as one of the leading playwrights of the post-Mao liberalisation and achieved international recognition with his play Bus Stop (1983) — which was subsequently banned as "spiritual pollution" by Chinese authorities — before a combination of political pressure and a misdiagnosis of lung cancer prompted him to flee Beijing in 1983 for a five-month journey through remote regions of Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan. The journey provided the material for Soul Mountain . Gao left China permanently in 1987, settled in Paris, and became a French citizen in 1998. Afte

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