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HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. First edition. Hard cover. Like New/Near Fine . A bold, lyrical, prodigious novel, Soul Mountain probes the human soul with an uncommon directness and candor. Interwoven with the myriad of stories and countless memorable characters -- from venerable Daosit masters and Buddhist nuns to mythical Wild Men, deadly Qichun snakes, and farting buses -- is the narrator's poignant inner journey and search for freedom.
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Soul Mountain
by Xingjian, Gao, and Lee, Mabel (Translated by)
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Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
by Xinran
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Nan A. Talese, 2005. Hardcover. Like New/Fine . 4x0x7. Shu Wen and her husband had been married for only a few months in the 1950s when he joined the Chinese army and was sent to Tibet for the purpose of unification of the two countries. Shortly after he left she was notified that he had been killed, although no details were given. Determined to find the truth, Shu Wen joined a militia unit going to the Tibetan north, where she soon was separated from the regiment. Without supplies and knowledge of the language, she wandered, trying to find her way until, on the brink of death, she was rescued by a family of nomads under whose protection she moved from place to place with the seasons and eventually came to discover the details of her husbandâs death.In the haunting Sky Burial, Xinran has recreated Shu Wenâs journey, writing beautifully and simply of the silence and the emptiness in which Shu Wen was enveloped. The book is an extraordinary portrait of a woman and a…
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