Once Upon A Time in the East
A Story of Growing up. Nominated for the Costa Biography Award 2018, Nominiert: Jhalak Prize 2018, Nominiert: The Folio Prize 2018
(Sprache: Englisch)
A memoir of growing up in modern China from the Orange-shortlisted and Granta Best Young British Novelist.
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A memoir of growing up in modern China from the Orange-shortlisted and Granta Best Young British Novelist.
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From the Orange-shortlisted and Granta Best Young British Novelist, comes a rich memoir of growing up in modern China. Offers an intimate history of this fascinating country over the last four decades, together with an insight into daily life during the 1970s and '80s, covering politics, poverty and censorship.Autoren-Porträt von 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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Xiaolu Guo
- 2018, 336 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: VINTAGE
- ISBN-10: 1784702943
- ISBN-13: 9781784702946
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.01.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
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Stunning...This book will make your jaw drop, then clench in anger. Helen Brown Telegraph
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