One Man's Bible

Gao Xingjian

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Author
Gao Xingjian
Publish Date
2003-09-16
Book Type
Paperback
Publisher Name
HarperCollins
Subtitle
A Novel
Number of Pages
464
Edition
Reprint
ISBN-10
0060936266
ISBN-13
9780060936266
SKU
9780060936266

Description

One Man's Bible is a fictionalized account of Gao Xingjian's life under the Chinese Communist regime. Daily life is riddled with paranoia and fear, and government propaganda turns citizens against one another. It is a place where a single sentence spoken ten years earlier can make one an enemy of the state.

But One Man's Bible is also a profound meditation on the essence of writing, on exile, on the effects of political oppression on the human spirit, and on how the human spirit can triumph.