Venerable Daoist masters, Buddhist nuns, mythical Wild Men, and deadly Qichun snakes populate this bold, lyrical novel, an extraordinary work of profound beauty by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000.

< P> Inspired by the author's personal trauma in Europe and Mao's China, these two plays scrutinize the psychology of self-proclaimed heroes and the consequences of dangerous revolutions that turn literature and art into hostages of politics,... [More...]

These six stories by Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian transport the reader to moments where the fragility of love and life, and the haunting power of memory, are beautifully unveiled. In "The Temple," the narrator's acute and mysterious anxiety overshadows... [More...]

In the same circling, ruminative vein as his Nobel Prize-winning debut novel "Soul Mountain," Chinese expatriate Xingjian's fictionalized memoir of his youth is an attempt to capture the Kafkaesque anxieties of the Cultural Revolution.

"Of Mountains and Seas" is a fictional play that weaves together legendary characters from the classic Chinese text, "Shanhaijing," The well-known mythical characters are presented as ordinary individuals who, despite their divine powers, struggle with the... [More...]

From Gao Xingjian, a winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature, comes a "major drama about life."
"Snow in August" is based on the life of Huineng (AD 633-713), the Sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism in Tang Dynasty China. Packed with the myriad sights... [More...]

Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese Nobel Laureate in Literature. The Swedish Academy summarized his achievements as follows: "An oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chines novel and... [More...]