Soul mountain (Record no. 4540)

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fixed length control field 01607nam a22001697a 4500
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20240305124545.0
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0007119224
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency GESM
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Gao, Xingjian
240 00 - UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Soul mountain
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Soul mountain
Statement of responsibility, etc. Xingjian Gao; Mabel Lee
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Flamingo
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2001
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 510 p.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. In 1982 Chinese playwright, novelist and artist Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer, the very disease which had killed his father. For six weeks Gao inhabited a transcendental state of imminent death, treating himself to the finest foods he could afford while spending time reading in an old graveyard in the Beijing suburbs. But a secondary examination revealed there was no cancer - he had won a 'reprieve from death' and had been thrown back into the world of the living. Faced with a repressive cultural environment and the threat of a spell in a prison farm, Gao fled Beijing. He travelled first to the ancient forests of central China and from there to the east coast, passing through eight provinces and seven nature reserves, a journey of fifteen thousand kilometres over a period of five months. The result of this epic voyage of discovery is Soul Moutain. Interwoven into this picaresque journey are myriad stories and countless memorable characters - from venerable Daoist masters and Buddhist monks and nuns to mythical Wild Men; deadly Qichun snakes to farting buses. Conventions are challenged, preconceptions are thwarted and the human condition, with all its foibles and triumphs, is laid bare.
653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED
Uncontrolled term Meaning (Philosophy)
-- Fiction
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
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