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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Soul Mountain about whose, Chinese, Nobel with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction.. Start with the sentence 'the author (whose name is pronounced gow shing-jen) is the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature'.
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conversations.value: the author (whose name is pronounced gow shing-jen) is the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in 1940 in Jiangxi province in eastern China, he has lived in France since 1987. the author is an artistic innovator, in both the visual arts and literature. He is that rare multitalented artist who excels as novelist, playwright, essayist, director, and painter. In addition to <em>Soul Mountain</em> and <em>One Man's Bible,</em> a book of his plays, <em>The Other Shore,</em> and a volume of his paintings, <em>Return to Painting,</em> have been published in the United States.
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book titled Soul Mountain.
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conversations.value: Soul Mountain: The first of the two characters to be introduced is "You".\nHe is described as a local tourist – "not that sort of tourist" but a backpacking one "wearing strong sensible sports shoes and a backpack with shoulder straps".\nHe seeks out the elusive Lingshan, a sacred mountain.\n"You" has long lived in the city, but yearns for a rural existence from the past He shuns the idea of settling for "a peaceful and stable existence" where one wants to "find a not-too-demanding sort of a job, stay in a mediocre position, become a husband and a father, set up a comfortable home, put money in the bank and add to it every month so there\'ll be something for old age and a little left over for the next generation".\n"You" meets up with another wanderer, a troubled and emotional "She".\nAnd so "You"\'s journey also becomes a journey into an erotic relationship.\n"You" also travels inwards as he explores his powers as a storyteller.\nLater in "You"\'s story, "She" departs "as if in a story, as if in a dream".\nMeanwhile, "I" is a writer and academic who travels to Sichuan after having been misdiagnosed of a terminal lung cancer.\nHe wants to take a break and start looking for an "authentic life"—meaning the opposite of that of the state\'s concept of real life.\nThe characters\' sense of humanity is revealed during their quest.\n"I" realizes that he still craves the warmth of human society, despite its anxieties.\nSoul Mountain is essentially a two-part novel featuring two main characters—known only as "You" and "I".\nThe "You" character occupies the odd-numbered chapters 1–31 and the even-numbered chapters from 32–80, while the "I" character\'s includes even-numbered chapters 2–30 and odd-numbered chapters 33–81.
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conversations.value: Soul Mountain: The first of the two characters to be introduced is "You".\nHe is described as a local tourist – "not that sort of tourist" but a backpacking one "wearing strong sensible sports shoes and a backpack with shoulder straps".\nHe seeks out the elusive Lingshan, a sacred mountain.\n"You" has long lived in the city, but yearns for a rural existence from the past He shuns the idea of settling for "a peaceful and stable existence" where one wants to "find a not-too-demanding sort of a job, stay in a mediocre position, become a husband and a father, set up a comfortable home, put money in the bank and add to it every month so there\'ll be something for old age and a little left over for the next generation".\n"You" meets up with another wanderer, a troubled and emotional "She".\nAnd so "You"\'s journey also becomes a journey into an erotic relationship.\n"You" also travels inwards as he explores his powers as a storyteller.\nLater in "You"\'s story, "She" departs "as if in a story, as if in a dream".\nMeanwhile, "I" is a writer and academic who travels to Sichuan after having been misdiagnosed of a terminal lung cancer.\nHe wants to take a break and start looking for an "authentic life"—meaning the opposite of that of the state\'s concept of real life.\nThe characters\' sense of humanity is revealed during their quest.\n"I" realizes that he still craves the warmth of human society, despite its anxieties.\nSoul Mountain is essentially a two-part novel featuring two main characters—known only as "You" and "I".
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book about whose, Chinese, Nobel with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction.
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conversations.value: Soul Mountain: The first of the two characters to be introduced is "You".\nHe is described as a local tourist – "not that sort of tourist" but a backpacking one "wearing strong sensible sports shoes and a backpack with shoulder straps".\nHe seeks out the elusive Lingshan, a sacred mountain.\n"You" has long lived in the city, but yearns for a rural existence from the past He shuns the idea of settling for "a peaceful and stable existence" where one wants to "find a not-too-demanding sort of a job, stay in a mediocre position, become a husband and a father, set up a comfortable home, put money in the bank and add to it every month so there\'ll be something for old age and a little left over for the next generation".\n"You" meets up with another wanderer, a troubled and emotional "She".\nAnd so "You"\'s journey also becomes a journey into an erotic relationship.\n"You" also travels inwards as he explores his powers as a storyteller.\nLater in "You"\'s story, "She" departs "as if in a story, as if in a dream".\nMeanwhile, "I" is a writer and academic who travels to Sichuan after having been misdiagnosed of a terminal lung cancer.\nHe wants to take a break and start looking for an "authentic life"—meaning the opposite of that of the state\'s concept of real life.\nThe characters\' sense of humanity is revealed during their quest.\n"I" realizes that he still craves the warmth of human society, despite its anxieties.\nSoul Mountain is essentially a two-part novel featuring two main characters—known only as "You" and "I".\nThe "You" character occupies the odd-numbered chapters 1–31 and the even-numbered chapters from 32–80, while the "I" character\'s includes even-numbered chapters 2–30 and odd-numbered chapters 33–81.