Xiaolu Guo

Broschiertes Buch

Once Upon A Time in the East

A Story of Growing up

Beschreibung

Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the mountains. Aged two, and suffering from malnutrition on a diet of yam leaves, they leave Xiaolu with her illiterate grandparents in a fishing village on the East China Sea.

Autor

Xiaolu Guo was born in China. She published six books before moving to Britain in 2002. Her books include: Village of Stone, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and I Am China. Her recent memoir, Once Upon a Time in the East, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018. It was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Her most recent novel A Lover's Discourse was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a visiting professor at the Free University in Berlin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 234107, 720916
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9781784702946
• ISBN-10: 1784702943
• Artikelnr.: 49197318

Rezensionen

Stunning...This book will make your jaw drop, then clench in anger. Helen Brown Telegraph