Ling Shan

SIMPLIFIED CHINESE CHARACTER VERSION

A man travels the length and breadth of China, collecting stories, folk songs, lovers and experience in a search for meaning.

Soul Mountain is a novel of immense wisdom and profound beauty, bursting with knowledge and experience and portraying a culture as vast and fascinating as the history of humankind itself. It is both fictionalised autobiography and documentation of the author’s journey through the Chinese hinterland from July to November 1983. Written over a period of eight years, the novel provides the author with the space to fully explore existential issues, human history, as well as the absurdity of his own reality and personal history.