Currently reading
The Sound and the Fury
The Last Man
In Search of Walid Masoud (Middle East Literature in Translation)
No longer determined to finish it. The abuse is too distressing. Not even Gao's fairly gorgeous prose can make up for my distress. ++++++One quarter of the way in Gao Xingjian continues to be a remarkable writer but I'm over the raping and suicide of women theme in the storytelling. He is telling these stories to a suicidally depressed woman he picked up in a village. A woman he is sexually attracted to. Or perhaps I will be surprised and discover she is telling these stories to herself, a symptom of her fear and flight?Still, determined to finish it this time.