A tale in this novel concerns an elderly carpenter who dies upon finishing a carving of a malevolent goddess. In an “optional” chapter of this novel, a critic accuses the author of being a nihilist of the “searching-for-roots” school. After repeatedly telling the narrator to go to the other side of a river, an old man in this novel states, (-5[1])“The road is not wrong, it is the traveller who is wrong.” This novel’s narrator spends time copying folk songs and hears of forests home to yeti-like “Wild Men.” At the end of this novel, the narrator encounters God in the form of a (10[1])blinking frog. (10[1])In this (10[1])novel, (10[1])which reflects its author’s style of “cold literature” and (10[1])experience (10[2])receiving (10[1])a false (10[1])lung cancer diagnosis, (10[6])narrators (10[1])simply named “You” and (10[1])“I” (10[1])travel (-5[1])in search (10[2])of the mythical title place. For 10 points, name this novel by Gao Xingjian ■END■ (10[4])