description: From China's first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize in 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.
language: English
title: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather
titlecomplete: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather
genres: Fiction, Asia, Short Stories, China, Literature, Romance, Asian Literature, Nobel Prize, 20th Century, Chinese Literature
ratings_count: 1710
publisher: Harpercollins