One Man's Bible

Informationen zum Autor Gao Xingjian (‘gow shing-jen’) is the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in 1940 in Jiangxi province in eastern China, he earned a degree in French in Beijing, and embarked on a life of letters. Choosing exile in 1987, he settled in Paris, where he completed ‘Soul Mountain’ two years later. In 1992 he was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He is a playwright and painter as well as a fiction writer and critic. Mabel Lee is Honorary Associate Professor of Chinese at the University of Sydney, and an authhority on twentieth-century Chinese history and literature. Klappentext The new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of international bestseller `Soul Mountain¿. `Unforgettable. ¿One Man¿s Bible¿ burns with a powerfully individualistic fire of intelligence and depth of feeling.¿ New York Times Zusammenfassung The new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of international bestseller ‘Soul Mountain’. ‘Unforgettable. “One Man’s Bible” burns with a powerfully individualistic fire of intelligence and depth of feeling.’ New York Times

Product details

• Authors: Gao Xingjian, Gao Xingjian
• Assisted by: Mabel Lee (Translation)
• Publisher: Flamingo
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.07.2003
• EAN: 9780007142422
• ISBN: 978-0-00-714242-2
• No. of pages: 450
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Flamingo Pocketbooks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Chinesische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), China : Belletristik (Romane, Erzählungen)