Gao Xingjian
Author
Publisher
Flamingo
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In 1982 Chinese playwright, novelist and artist Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer, the very disease that had killed his father. For six weeks Gao inhabited a transcendental state of imminent death, treating himself to the finest foods he could afford while spending time reading in an old graveyard in the Beijing suburbs. But a secondary examination revealed there was no cancer - he had won a ?reprieve from death? and had been thrown back...