Bought this afternoon at the local flea market. When I asked the seller if she had read it she said no, she was just freeing up some space on her shelves, so I said "have you heard of bookcrossing it is great for freeing up bookshelf space", she hadn't heard of it so I did my bookcrossing promotion speech, and left her with the website address. Hope she joins.
From Amazon-
In 1983, Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death.But six weeks later, a second examination revealed there was no cancer -- he had won "a second reprieve from death." Faced with a repressive cultural environment and the threat of a spell in a prison farm, Gao fled Beijing and began a journey of 15,000 kilometers into the remote mountains and ancient forests of Sichuan in southwest China. The result of this epic voyage of discovery is Soul Mountain.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

RELEASE NOTES:

Given to my sister to release into her shop. You will be able to find it with the other bookcrossing books near the door (I think)

Happy reading to the finder...