Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather: Stories by Gao Xing Jian, translated by Mabel Lee [in AsianWeek]
04 Aug, by in Adult Readers, Chinese, Repost, Short Stories, Translation
This slim volume of short stories by Nobel Prize Winner Gao, does not offer linear tales with pithy morals. Instead, it’s an elliptical collection...
The follow-up to Gao’s Nobel Prize-winning Soul Mountain. At the request of his naked, white German lover in the relative freedom of a Hong Kong hotel room in 1996, Gao’s fictionalized counterpart...