Concluida en 1989 y galardonada con el Premio Nobel de Literatura en el 2000, la novela narra el largo viaje de un hombre en busca de una enigmatica Montana del Alma, donde todo, selvas y bosques, templos, animales y hombres, desde el salvaje hasta el monje o al erudito, conserva la pureza de su estado original. El autor entremezcla magistralmente bellas y crueles historias chinas con fragmentos folosoficos y referencias literarias. Artisticamente inmensa, novela de la memoria y a la vez de la historia. Una obra de critica politica, cultural y social en la que China viene a ser su unico protagonistaEnglish Translation: Concluded in 1989 and awarded with the Nobel prize de Literature in the 2000, the novel narrates the long trip of a man in search of an enigmatic Mountain of the Core, where everything, forests and forests, temples, animals and men, from the savage to the monk or to the scholar, conserve the purity of its original state. The author skillfully intermingles beautiful and cruel Chinese histories with philosophical fragments and literary references. Artistic immense, novel of the memory and simultaneously of history. A work of political, cultural and social critic in Chinese which it comes to be his only protagonist