From China's 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 Gao's bestselling novels, Soul Mountain and One Man's Bible.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9780007170395
eBay Product ID (ePID)
87034272
Product Key Features
Book Title
Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather
Author
Gao Xingjian
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories, Books
Publication Year
2005
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
130g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Gao Xingjian
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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