{"product_id":"gao-xingjian-soul-mountain","title":"Gao Xingjian - Soul Mountain","description":"\u003cp\u003eBūklė - labai gera\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1982 Chinese playwright, novelist and artist Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer, the very disease that had killed his father. For six weeks Gao inhabited a transcendental state of imminent death, treating himself to the finest foods he could afford while spending time reading in an old graveyard in the Beijing suburbs. But a secondary examination revealed there was no cancer - he had won a 'reprieve from death' and had been thrown back into the world of the living.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFaced with a repressive cultural environment and the threat of a spell in a prison farm, Gao fled Beijing. He travelled first to the ancient forests of central China and from there to the east coast, passing through eight provinces and seven nature reserves, a journey of fifteen thousand kilometres over a period of five months. The result of this epic voyage of discovery is 'Soul Mountain'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInterwoven into this picaresque journey are myriad stories and countless memorable characters - from venerable Daoist masters and Buddhist monks and nuns to mythical Wild Men; deadly Qichun snakes to farting buses. Conventions are challenged, preconceptions are thwarted and the human condition, with all its foibles and triumphs, is laid bare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LIBRIS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63935695487306,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0727\/4404\/2826\/files\/IMG_9508_afd40d20-edbc-48e2-b3b6-723aa374969a.jpg?v=1792061981","url":"https:\/\/www.libris.lt\/products\/gao-xingjian-soul-mountain","provider":"LIBRIS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}