Soul Mountain

Blurb

Soul Mountain is a novel by the Chinese writer Gao Xingjian. The novel is loosely based on the author's journey in 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/legends. An English version translated by Mabel Lee was published in the United States on December 5, 2000.