One Man's Bible

Moving between the nightmare of the Cultural Revolution , and the tentative, limited liberties of the China of the 1990s, One Man's Bible weaves memories of a Beijing boyhood and amorous encounters in Hong Kong svith 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 profound meditation on the essence of writing and exile, One Man's Bible is above all a piercing, passionate account of the effects of political oppression on the human spirit - and of how that spirit can triumph.