Soul Mountain
de Xingjian, Gao
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0732266513
- ISBN 13
- 9780732266516
- Librería
-
Ashmore, Queensland, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
Sydney: Flamingo (HarperCollins), 2000. 510pp. FIRST PRINTING IN ENGLISH. Light even toning to page edges. This translation by noted Australian scholar, Mabel Lee, was the first English language edition of this winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for literature. At the time of winning the prize less than 500 copies had been sold worldwide in the English translation, this from a tiny initial print run. The author, preeminent playwright in China, was misdiagnosed as having cancer in 1982 and decided to end his days having the best of everything he could afford. After a second test revealed he did not have cancer, and facing time in a prison farm, Xingjian fled Beijing. For 6 weeks he entered a transendental state of imminent death then received his reprieve from death. This is the story of his journey. Extremely rare as true first.. First English Language Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.
Sinopsis
Soul Mountain is a novel by 2000 Nobel Prize winning Chinese author Gao Xingjian, first published in Chinese in 1990. It was first published in the United States in English in December 5, 2000, and was translated by Mabel Lee. The novel is a product of the author's journey in rural areas of China, inspired by a false diagnosis of fatal lung cancer. The novel is a part autobiographical, part fictional account of a man's journey to find the fabled mountain Lingshan.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Lawrence Jones
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 043221
- Título
- Soul Mountain
- Autor
- Xingjian, Gao
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Edición
- First English Language Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0732266513
- ISBN 13
- 9780732266516
- Editorial
- Flamingo (HarperCollins)
- Lugar de publicación
- Sydney
- Fecha de publicación
- 2000
- Palabras clave
- Nobel Prize Literature Chinese Literature Persecution Xingjian
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Modern Firsts; Asia; Biography; Literature & Poetry;
- Size
- 8vo
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Sobre el vendedor
Lawrence Jones
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
Ashmore, Queensland
Sobre Lawrence Jones
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