_1990.jpg) Cover of first Chinese edition, 1990 | |
| Author | Gao Xingjian |
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| Translator | Mabel Lee |
| Language | Chinese |
| Genre | Literary modernism Semiautobiographical novel |
| Set in | rural China, 1980s |
| Publisher | Lianjing Chubanshe, HarperCollins |
Publication date | December 1990 |
Published in English | December 5, 2000 |
| Media type | Print: paperback |
| Pages | 616 |
| ISBN | 9789570836899 |
| OCLC | 24498893 |
| 895.1352 | |
| Soul Mountain | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 靈山 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 灵山 | ||||||||
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Soul Mountain is a novel by Gao Xingjian. The novel is loosely based on the author's own journey into rural China, which was inspired by a false diagnosis of lung cancer. The novel is a part autobiographical, part fictional account of a man's journey to find the fabled mountain Lingshan. It is a combination of story fragments, travel accounts, unnamed characters (referred to by the pronouns "I", "you", "she", etc.), and folk poetry and legends. An English version translated by Mabel Lee was published in the United States on December 5, 2000.