20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
$36.47
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
18 January 2022
Summary
‘She’s no good, that girl. Much too individualistic’
This is the story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more independent than her provincial roots, gets a job as a film extra in Beijing. But living a modern life is not as easy as it looks in this tumultuous, messy city. Grappling with the narrow world of cinema, an outworn Communist regime, and the city’s far-from-progressive attitudes to women, charismatic Fenfang finds her true freedom in the one place she never expect…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784877446 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784877441 |
| Author: | Xiaolu Guo |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 18 January 2022 |
| Weight: | 186g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Vintage Heroines |
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About The Author
Xiaolu Guo
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.
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