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"In a Hong Kong hotel room in 1996, Gao Xingjian's lover, Marguerite, stirs up his memories of childhood and early adult life under the shadow of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution. Gao has been living in self-imposed exile in France and has traveled to this Western-influenced Chinese city-state, so close to his homeland, for the staging of one of his plays.".
"What follows is a fictionalized account of Gao Xingjian's life under the Communist regime. Whether in "beehive" offices in Beijing or in isolated rural towns, daily life is riddled with paranoia and fear, as revolutionaries, counterrevolutionaries, reactionaries, counterreactionaries, and government propaganda turn citizens against one another. It is a place where a single sentence spoken ten years earlier can make one an enemy of the state.
Gao evokes the spiritual torture of political and intellectual repression in graphic detail, including the heartbreaking betrayals he suffers in his relationships with women and men alike." "One Man's Bible is a 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Fiction, History, Social conditions, Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author), China, fictionPeople
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One Man's Bible
September 3, 2002, HarperCollins
Hardcover
in English
- 1st ed edition
0066211328 9780066211329
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Le livre d'un homme seul
February 24, 2000, Editions de l'Aube
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in French
2876785382 9782876785380
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The second novel in English translation by 2000 Nobel Prize-winning author Gao Xingjian, after his Soul Mountain
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