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Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather by Xingjian Gao (Paperback, 2005)

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Author: Gao Xingjian. Title: Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather. Country/Region of Manufacture: GB. Format: Paperback. Item Height: 198mm. Release Year: 2005. Language: English. ISBN: 9780007170395.

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From China's first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature comes an exquisite new book of fictions, ne 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 stalgia, these stories hum with simplicity and wisdom - and will delight anyone who loved Gao's bestselling vels, Soul Mountain and One Man's Bible.

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PublisherHarper Perennial, Harpercollins Publishers

ISBN-100007170394

ISBN-139780007170395

eBay Product ID (ePID)103717082

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AuthorXingjian Gao

FormatB-Format Paperback, Paperback

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral & Literary Fiction

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Place of PublicationLondon

Author BiographyGao Xingjian was born in 1940 in Jiangxi province in eastern China, and has lived in France since 1987. Gao is considered an artistic innovator in his native China, both in the visual arts and in literature. He is that rare multi-talented artist who excels as a novelist, playwright, essayist, director and painter. Two novels, the internationally best-selling 'Soul Mountain' and 'One Man's Bible', are available in English, as well as a volume of his art entitled 'Return to Painting'.

Date of Publication21/03/2005

Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom