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Gao xingjian born january 4, 1940 is a chinese emigre novelist, playwright, and critic who in 2000 was awarded the nobel prize for literature for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity. Gao wants to cut himself off from it completely a markedly unchinese attitude while margarethe, departing from the stereotype of the pragmatic, presentoriented westerner, insists that. Throughout the book, the chapters alternate between the narrator describing. The first edition of the novel was published in january 1st 1989, and was written by gao xingjian. Free download or read online soul mountain pdf epub book.
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