Thursday, January 6, 2011
Soul food
Title: Soul Mountain
By: Xingjian Gao
Whether or not the Nobel Committee was looking for an excuse to honor a Chinese writer, they did this one right. Soul Mountain has the intense clarity of mountain light, so sharp it hurts -- and exhilarates. It is also, unexpectedly perhaps, extremely funny, and at times raunchy. It exercises all the senses.
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Posted on Jan. 6, 2011 at 12:15 a.m.
