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Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather Hardcover - 2004

by Gao Xingjian


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Novelist, playwright, essayist, and short-story writer Gao Xingjian is that rare breed of artist able to express himself with equal grace in almost any form of literature. In 2000 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in recognition of his astonishing talents. The collection Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather offers this author's own selection and arrangement of his shorter fiction.

Written between 1983 and 1990, these beautifully translated stories take as their themes the fragility of love and life, and the haunting power of memory. 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 Accident" a bus hits a cyclist and, as in stop-action film, the chaotic aftermath gives way to a calm, ordinary street corner with no trace of the previous drama. In the title story the narrator attempts to "unburden myself of homesickness" only to find himself 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.

Gao Xingjian has shown a mastery of the epic form in his novels Soul Mountain and One Man's Bible. In Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather, he brings the same passion and precision to the short story.

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  • Title Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather
  • Author Gao Xingjian
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 127
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper, New York
  • Date 2004
  • ISBN 9780060575557 / 0060575557
  • Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.86 x 5.26 x 0.66 in (19.96 x 13.36 x 1.68 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003051138
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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