Summary
The new memoir from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo - playful, provocative and original, it’s her deeply personal take on striving for a life of her own.
The world can seem strange and lonely when you step away from your family and everything you have tried to call your own. Yet beauty may also appear. In the autumn of 2019 Xiaolu travelled to New York to take up her position as a visiting professor for a year, leaving her child and partner behind in London. The encounte…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784744878 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784744875 |
| Author: | Xiaolu Guo |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Chatto & Windus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 11 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 352g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 136mm x 27mm |
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‘An etymological voyage that lives up to its title: radical in angle of attack, smart and brave. Making the urban condition of restlessness and pain into poetry.’
An etymological voyage that lives up to its title: radical in angle of attack, smart and brave. Making the urban condition of restlessness and pain into poetry * IAIN SINCLAIR, author of The Gold Machine *A wild, passionate, gorgeous book, wandering the borders of language and desire; walking cities and remembering the ghosts of past landscapes. Xiaolu Guo’s books always open up new connections and curiosities for me. She is certainly among my favourite contemporary writers * AYSEGUL SAVAS, author of White on White *Xiaolu Guo is a writer like no other, and this is a memoir like no other * RANA MITTER, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, University of Oxford *Guo’s writing is tender and raw, and she creates a passionate, intimate vocabulary, exploring the complexity of belonging, nostalgia, and love * Skinny *[A] marvellous new memoir… [an] intellectually rich and stimulating journey * Guardian *
About The Author
Xiaolu Guo
Xiaolu Guo was born in south China. She studied at the Beijing Film Academy and published six books in China before moving to London in 2002. Her books include Village of Stone which was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth which was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and I Am China which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her recent memoir, Once Upon a Time in the East, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, the Jhalak Prize and the Rathbones Folio Award 2018, and was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. In 2013 Xiaolu was named as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. She has directed several award-winning films including She, A Chinese, and documentaries about China and Britain. She was a judge for the Booker Prize in 2019, and is currently a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York.
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