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Gao Xingjian Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather : Stories
- Publication Name
- Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather
- Title
- Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather
- Subtitle
- Stories
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0060575565
- EAN
- 9780060575564
- ISBN
- 9780060575564
- Edition
- Perennial ed.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Year
- 2005
- Release Date
- 04/01/2005
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.3in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 4.6 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Topic
- Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Short Stories (Single Author), General
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
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"Precisely detailed and delicately suggestive: the best work of Gao's yet to appear in English translation."--Kirkus Reviews A collection of six exquisite short stories from Gao Xingjian, the first Chinese writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. 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 title story the narrator attempts to relieve his homesickness only to find that he is 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.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060575565
ISBN-13
9780060575564
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30880735
Product Key Features
Book Title
Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather : Stories
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Short Stories (Single Author), General
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
4.6 Oz
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Reviews
Collier's sixth collection engages with childhood, fatherhood, and family life, in the living present and memorial past, a history explored with brilliantly precise detail and originality of perspective., "For all their elusiveness, these impressionistic sketches have an austere power." -- New York Times Book Review "Dreamlike ... the force of Gao's imagination is spellbinding." -- San Jose Mercury News "A collection of superb short stories that deftly experiment with language and narrative form ... the elegant simplicity of [Gao's] meditations on memory, loss, and love ache beautifully with a melancholic desire to understand the past... immensely rewarding and enriching." -- Rocky Mountain News "[Gao's] narrators walk as if in a dream through a private landscape of memory and sensation." -- Boston Globe "Beautiful." -- Village Voice "Precisely detailed and delicately suggestive: the best work of Gao's yet to appear in English translation." -- Kirkus Reviews "These spare, evocative pieces. . . offer a sample of Nobel-winner Gao's sharp, poetic early work." -- Publishers Weekly, A collection of superb short stories that deftly experiment with language and narrative form ... the elegant simplicity of [Gao's] meditations on memory, loss, and love ache beautifully with a melancholic desire to understand the past... immensely rewarding and enriching., Precisely detailed and delicately suggestive: the best work of Gao's yet to appear in English translation.
Dewey Decimal
895.1/352
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
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