Results for 'xiaolu guo'

1. Xiaolu Guo

20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth

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.

1. Xiaolu Guo

Call Me Ishmaelle

An astonishingly ambitious undertaking . . . you’re in the hands of a genuine storyteller

1. Yan Lianke

Dream of Ding Village

One of China's most successful fiction writers

1. Hu Anyan

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing

Powerful... grim indictment of a terrible system, though Anyan finds humour and dignity in his bleakest moments

1. Hu Anyan

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing

Powerful... grim indictment of a terrible system, though Anyan finds humour and dignity in his bleakest moments

Xiaolu Guo