One Man's Bible - Softcover

Xingjian, Gao

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ISBN 10: 0060519983 ISBN 13: 9780060519988

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2002

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Edition Flamingo (an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers), 2003. Translated from Chinese by Mabel Lee. ISBN: 0-00-714242-0. PAPERBACK. 450 pages, size: 12.9 x 19.8 x 2.8 cm. Just light tan to paper edges. Other than that, the new and unread copy remains in very good condition throughout. Text all clean, neat and tight. Prompt dispatch from UK.

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Review:

"A remarkable achievement." -- Christian Science Monitor

"Dreamlike .. elegant and haunting." -- Boston Globe

"Unforgettable . One Man's Bible burns with a powerfully individualistic fire of intelligence and depth of feeling." -- New York Times

"Perhaps the most powerful thing Gao has ever written."--New York Review of Books

"A remarkable achievement."--Christian Science Monitor

"Dreamlike .... elegant and haunting."--Boston Globe

"450 brilliant pages of reflection, self-reflection and redemption."--Ruminator Review

"[Gao] paints a stark, unforgiving picture of the results of Mao's regime and of the Cultural Revolution."--Denver Post

"Conveys that profound sense of dislocation human beings can sometimes feel, when looks back on one's own life."--Baltimore Sun

"Unforgettable ... One Man's Bible burns with a powerfully individualistic fire of intelligence and depth of feeling."--New York Times

About the Author:

Gao Xingjian (whose name is pronounced gow shing-jen) is the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in 1940 in Jiangxi province in eastern China, he has lived in France since 1987. Gao Xingjian is an artistic innovator, in both the visual arts and literature. He is that rare multitalented artist who excels as novelist, playwright, essayist, director, and painter. In addition to Soul Mountain and One Man's Bible, a book of his plays, The Other Shore, and a volume of his paintings, Return to Painting, have been published in the United States.

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