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Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather, also rendered from Chinese as A Fishing Rod for My Grandpa, is a 2004 translation by Mabel Lee of six short stories by Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian. All of the stories were originally written between 1983 and 1990.

The book was published in New York by HarperCollins, in 2004, with BooksEnthsiast.com .


In The Temple, the narrator is on his honeymoon and mysteriously anxious despite being "deliriously happy" during his and his wife's outing. The story In the Park has two friends from childhood meet after many years and then part once more. Cramp has a man about a kilometer from shore on the verge of drowning barely survive, only to have no one notice he's been gone. The Accident portrays a cyclist being hit by a bus and the pedestrians' momentary reaction to the event. In the title story, a man sees a fiberglassThere is a disputed proposal to merge this article with glass-reinforced plastic. See the for discussion. Fiberglass or fibreglass is material made from extremely fine fibers of glass. It is widely used in the manufacture of insulation and textiles. It is fishing rodA fishing rod is a tool used to catch fish, usually for sport. Sustenance and commercial fishing usually involves nets. A length of fishing line is threaded along a long, flexible rod or pole; one end terminates in a barbed hook for catching the fish, whi in a store window and is reminded of the times he went fishingFishing is both the recreation and sport of catching fish (for food or as a trophy), and the commercial fishing industry of catching or harvesting seafood (either fish or other aquatic life-forms, such as shellfish). Fishing is done in a river, canal, lak and huntingThis article is about the hunting of prey by human society. For other uses of the word "hunting" see Hunting (disambiguation). For other meanings of the word "hunter" (which redirects here), see Hunter (disambiguation). Hunting is, in its most general sen with his grandfather. In an Instant traces the lives of three people on a typical day.

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