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Paperback. Pub Date :2010-05-21 192 English Harper Perennial From Chinas first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature comes an exquisite new book of fictions. none of which has ever been published before in English . A young couple on honeymoon visit a beautiful temple up in the mountains. and spend the day intoxicated by the tranquillity of the setting; a swimmer is paralysed by a sudden cramp and finds himself stranded far out to sea on a cold autumn day; a man reminisces about his beloved grandfather. who used to make his own fishing rods from lengths of crooked bamboo straightened over a fire ... Blending the crisp immediacy of the present moment with the soft afterglow of memory and nostalgia. these stories hum with simplicity and wisdom - and will delight anyone who loved Gaos bestselling novels. Soul Mountain and One Mans Bible.
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Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather, Gao Xingjian, Mabel Lee
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- Released
- 2005
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- Title
- Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gao Xingjian, Mabel Lee
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Released
- 2005
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 180
- ISBN10
- 0007170394
- ISBN13
- 9780007170395
- Series
- Rating
- 3.4 out of 5
- Description
- Paperback. Pub Date :2010-05-21 192 English Harper Perennial From Chinas first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature comes an exquisite new book of fictions. none of which has ever been published before in English . A young couple on honeymoon visit a beautiful temple up in the mountains. and spend the day intoxicated by the tranquillity of the setting; a swimmer is paralysed by a sudden cramp and finds himself stranded far out to sea on a cold autumn day; a man reminisces about his beloved grandfather. who used to make his own fishing rods from lengths of crooked bamboo straightened over a fire ... Blending the crisp immediacy of the present moment with the soft afterglow of memory and nostalgia. these stories hum with simplicity and wisdom - and will delight anyone who loved Gaos bestselling novels. Soul Mountain and One Mans Bible.