Soul Mountain is an elegant, unforgettable and courageous novel; a picaresque journey of one man - part travel diary, part philosophy, part love story and part fable. Interwoven are myriad stories and countless memorable characters - from venerable Dalits masters and Buddhist monks and nuns to mythical Wild Men; Qichun snakes to farting buses. Conventions are challenged, preconceptions are thwarted and the human condition, with all its foibles and triumphs, is laid bare.
