Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather
- 作者:Gao Xingjian
- 出版社:HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS UK
- 出版日期:2005-03-21
- 語言:英文
- ISBN10:0007170394
- ISBN13:9780007170395
- 裝訂:平裝 / 192頁 / 普通級 / 單色印刷 / 初版
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.