- Gao Xingjian

Fast Fiction - Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather (Fast Fiction)

By Gao Xingjian

Originally published in the collection of the same name, Buying a Fishing Rod For My Grandfather blends the crisp immediacy of the present moment with the soft afterglow of memory and nostalgia, and will delight anyone who loved Gao’s bestselling novels, Soul Mountain and One Man’s Bible.

Blending the crisp immediacy of the present moment with the soft afterglow of memory and nostalgia, Buying a Fishing Rod For My Grandfather hums with simplicity and wisdom – and will delight anyone who loved Gao’s bestselling novels, Soul Mountain and One Man’s Bible.

Author: Gao Xingjian
Format: ebook
Release Date: 11 Apr 2011
Pages: None
ISBN: 978-0-00-742635-5
Gao Xingjian (‘gow shing-jen’) is the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in 1940 in Jiangxi province in eastern China, he earned a degree in French in Beijing, and embarked on a life of letters. Choosing exile in 1987, he settled in Paris, where he completed ‘Soul Mountain’ two years later. In 1992 he was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He is a playwright and painter as well as a fiction writer and critic.

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