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Mabel Lee

    Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather
    Soul mountain
    One Man's Bible
    • Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather

      • 180 stránok
      • 7 hodin čítania

      Paperback. Pub Date :2010-05-21 192 English Harper Perennial From Chinas 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 ... 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 Gaos bestselling novels. Soul Mountain and One Mans Bible.

      Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather2005
      3,4
    • Soul mountain

      • 528 stránok
      • 19 hodin čítania

      A Chinese man goes on a journey of self discovery in the distant regions of contemplating the disparaging effects of the cultural revolution.

      Soul mountain2004
      3,6
    • One Man's Bible

      • 464 stránok
      • 17 hodin čítania

      The study of the interplay between the individual self and collective selves is an arena of rich theory and research in social psychology. Self and Social Identity is a collection of readings from the four-volume set of Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology that examine how group memberships shape the content of the individual's self concept and how the sense of self is expanded as a consequence of identification with other individuals and the group as a whole.

      One Man's Bible2003
      3,7