Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather

Gao Xingjian

earliest edition we have, 2004 HarperCollins, 2007 ebook

These six stories by Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian transport the reader to moments where the fragility of love and life, and the haunting power of memory, are beautifully unveiled. In "The Temple," the narrator's acute and mysterious anxiety overshadows the delirious happiness of an outing with his new wife on their honeymoon. In "The Cramp," a man narrowly escapes drowning in the sea, only to find that no one even...

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Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather ebook · 2007 · HarperCollins · 9780061350788
Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather paperback · 2005 · Harper Perennial · 144 pages · 9780060575564
Buying a fishing rod for my grandfather edition · 2004 · HarperCollinsPublishers · 127 pages

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