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OverviewLonglisted for the Baileys Women's Fiction Prize In a flat above a noisy north London market, translator Iona Kirkpatrick starts work on a Chinese letter. Two lovers, Mu and Jian, have been driven apart by forces beyond their control. As Iona unravels the story of the lovers, Jian and Mu seem to be travelling further and further away from each other. Iona, intoxicated by their romance, sets out to bring them back together, but time is running out. Xiaolu Guo was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists Full Product DetailsAuthor: Xiaolu GuoPublisher: Vintage Publishing Imprint: Vintage Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.266kg ISBN: 9780099583738ISBN 10: 0099583739 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 29 June 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsHeart-wrenching... An extraordinary and important book -- Charlie Cooper Independent Beautifully done -- Viv Groskop Red I Am China is a moving tale of life and fate, love and loss, that will stay with the reader long after the last page New Internationalist Piercingly urgent and revelatory i Dark, witty fiction -- David Evans Financial Times Author InformationXiaolu 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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