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Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather

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noted, 'The 2000 Nobel laureate’s declaration “that his fiction does not set out to tell a story” is supported by the six tales in this first translated collection. That aesthetic is thus summarized by scholar Lee, who has translated Gao’s ramshackle major novels
230:(2002) and now these terse chamber pieces, which appeared separately during the years 1983–91 and together as part of a larger Chinese language collection. They’re generally “about” individual experiences seen in relation to larger contexts.' 39: 328: 233:
The anonymous reviewer concluded, "Inconsistently developed, but precisely detailed and delicately suggestive: the best work of Gao’s yet to appear in English translation".
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In "The Temple", the narrator is on his honeymoon and mysteriously anxious despite being "deliriously happy" during his and his wife's outing.
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fishing rod in a store window and is reminded of the times he went fishing and hunting with his grandfather.
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The book was published in New York by HarperCollins, in 2004, with
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