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Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather
Registered by Stoepbrak of Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa on 6/2/2016
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Synopsis (credit: back cover)
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.
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 ...
(Bought second-hand at My Bookshop, Die Boord, Stellenbosch.)
Read on 2018-04-01. Unfortunately I didn't leave notes but I gave it a 7.
Journal Entry 3 by Stoepbrak at Help the Rural Child Chty Shp, Vct Rd in Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa on Wednesday, January 4, 2023
Released 2 yrs ago (1/10/2023 UTC) at Help the Rural Child Chty Shp, Vct Rd in Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa
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Donated to Help the Rural Child, a charity second-hand bookshop.
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