Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather

<p>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.</p> <p>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…</p> <p>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.</p>