One Man’s Bible

A new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of the international bestseller Soul Mountain. A fluid, elegant, evocative exploration of memory, this novel pulses with an overwhelmingly powerful sense of the past, distant and near, and provides moving and unprecedented insights into the character of modern China.Moving between the nightmare of the Cultural Revolution and the tentative, limited liberties of the China of the 1990s, this novel weaves memories of a Beijing boyhood and amorous encounters in Hong Kong with a fictionalized account of Gao Xingjian’s life under the communist regime – where a single sentence spoken ten years earlier can make one an enemy of the state. A fluid, elegant, evocative exploration of memory, this novel pulses with an overwhelmingly powerful sense of the past, distant and near, and provides moving and unprecedented insights into the character of modern China.