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Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather - Stories (Paperback, Perennial ed.) Loot Price: R282
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Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather - Stories (Paperback, Perennial ed.): Gao Xingjian

Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather - Stories (Paperback, Perennial ed.)

Gao Xingjian

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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 noticed his absence. In the title story, the narrator attempts to relieve his homesickness only to find that he is lost in a labyrinth of childhood memories.

Everywhere in this collection are powerful psychological portraits of characters whose unarticulated hopes and fears betray the never-ending presence of the past in their present lives.

General

Imprint: HarperCollinsPublishers
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 2005
First published: 2005
Authors: Gao Xingjian
Dimensions: 204 x 136 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 144
Edition: Perennial ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-057556-4
Categories: Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
LSN: 0-06-057556-5
Barcode: 9780060575564

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