Word: perforations
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Propelled by a solid starting perfor...
...exile in France, penning a sprawling novel, Soul Mountain, partially about his flight. In 2000, it helped him win an utterly unexpected Nobel Prize in Literature, the first by a Chinese author. To many writers, the Nobel has proved a curse, triggering furious envy from rivals, and intensifying crippling perfor-mance anxiety. And some critics carped that Gao was an undeserving mediocrity, hinting that he won only because of his relationship with Goran Malmqvist, his Swedish translator and the sole Chinese-speaking member of the Nobel-awarding Swedish Academy?a charge Malmqvist denies. For Gao, it has been a trying...