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Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather

By (author) Gao Xingjian

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normal price: R 190.95

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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.

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Normally shipped | Available from overseas. Dispatched in aprox 4-8 weeks as local supplier is out of stock
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers
Published date | 21 Mar 2005
Language | English
Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 192
Dimensions | 198 x 129 x 12mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 130g
ISBN | 978-0-0071-7039-5
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BISAC | fiction / literary

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