Buying a Fishing Rod For My Grandfather

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Dealing with Gao's trademark themes of relationships, family, the political scene in China and exploration of the self, these six stories are by turns moving, beautiful and thought-provoking.

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Gao Xingjian was born in 1940, in China. During the 1960s and 1970s, he wrote a number of works of prose, plays and poems, aware that what he wrote could not be published, since they failed to comply with the government's strict guidelines. He was finally able to publish a substantial number of works during the 1980s, but when a ban was imposed on the performance of his play Bus Stop in 1983, Gao finally fled Beijing and began the long journey of a political refugee which forms the basis of Soul Mountain and One Mans Bible. He now lives in Paris, where he writes and paints, and is a French citizen.