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In 1983 chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter gao xingjian pronounced gow shingjen was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death. Gao xingjian began writing soul mountain, the introspective and experimental novel key to his winning the nobel prize in literature, in beijing in the summer of 1982. Free download or read online soul mountain pdf epub book. Soul mountain isbn 9780060936235 pdf epub gao xingjian.
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