靈山

Soul Mountain

Author

Gao Xingjian

Language

Modern Chinese

Year

1990

Country

China

Genre

Novel

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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, and folk poetry and legends. An English version translated by Mabel Lee was published in the United States on December 5, 2000.