Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather

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Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather
Gao Xingjian

From China's first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature comes an exquisite 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.

Buying A Fishing Rod for My Grandfather

Translated from the Chinese By Mabel Lee

Gao Xingjian

Table of Contents

Cover Page (#uec476cdb-a34b-5434-9af4-d77caf9f4b84)

Title Page (#u8574dd6d-1c0d-519f-826c-147928b2b305)

THE TEMPLE (#ua483d0a5-ed95-5952-a9a3-fdad0b51720a)

IN THE PARK (#u9bb19d78-402d-5041-a240-e1bd78dcf24c)

CRAMP (#u1da75f60-f769-5400-9be9-5f404e6c014a)

THE ACCIDENT (#ua7327f30-fced-57d8-8dad-2388f438f9d7)

BUYING A FISHING ROD FOR MY GRANDFATHER (#ub9aac8ae-d45d-508d-b3a4-44b00aff54af)

IN AN INSTANT (#ue5b77285-1d4f-5217-88b3-4f808a89042e)

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE (#uba0d8cd5-59e3-5095-abfc-28db275ba96b)

About the Author (#u79af483d-2d0f-5d97-9f0c-8377bc81908c)

By the same author (#u9f5a3223-479e-59ce-9923-06ec0e2d2868)

Copyright (#ua31f0cbc-50bd-52fe-8c24-67c05f1f9ece)

About the Publisher (#u92c64e04-f232-5545-a9de-646501bec2a9)