{"product_id":"books-soul-mountain-by-gao-xingjian","title":"Soul Mountain","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1983, Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death.But six weeks later, a second examination revealed there was no cancer he had won a second reprieve from death. Faced with a repressive cultural environment and the threat of a spell in a prison farm, Gao fled Beijing and began a journey of 15,000 kilometers into the remote mountains and ancient forests of Sichuan in southwest China. The result of this epic voyage of discovery is Soul Mountain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBold, lyrical, and prodigious, Soul Moutain probes the human soul with an uncommon directness and candor and delights in the freedom of the imagination to expand the notion of the individual self.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53480270201105,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780060936235.jpg?v=1777545058","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-soul-mountain-by-gao-xingjian","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}