L’ami

• Author: Gao Xingjian (1940)
  
• Title: L’ami
• Genre: memoir ….only 22 pages
• Published: 2001
• Trivia: List Reading Challenges 2017
• Trivia: Nobel Prize Reading Challenge

What could I find about the author Gao Xingjian?

1. Gao Xingjian is a Chinese émigré novelist, playwright, and critic .
2. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2000.
3. He is also a noted translator screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter.
4. In 1998, Gao was granted French citizenship.

Conclusion:

1. I’m careful about embarking on a long book by a Chinese writer.
2. Sometimes I’m lucky, sometimes I’m not.
3. I read L’Ami to give myself a ‘taste’ of Gao Xingjian’s writing.
4. I want to read more of Xingjian’s books….but in English!
5. This book  is written in such a simple style
6. …..it feels complex.
7. Tone:  nostalgic – two old friends (60+) meet again after 13 years.

I knew it was you…your hair is white.
Why didn’t you write?’
Tell me exactly what happened that day.
Are you oke?’

Last thoughts:

1. I enjoyed reading this very simple story
2. …and must admit it lingered in my mind longer than
3. some 500+ page novels!