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20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Life as a film extra in Beijing might seem hard, but Fenfang won't be defeated. She has travelled 1800 miles to seek her fortune in the city, and has no desire to return to the never-ending sweet potato fields back home. Determined to live a modern life, Fenfang works as a cleaner in the Young Pioneer's ...Show more
20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
24.00 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world '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 e ...Show more
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
34.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Who would believe that reading a novel written in deliberately bad English could be as uplifting an experience as this? But Xiaolu Guo, writing in English for the first time, has pulled it off in a novel that has the potential to be as successful as A History of Tractors in Ukranian or Lost in Translati ...Show more
A Lover's Discourse by Xiaolu Guo
24.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'A fragmentary meditation on the nature of love' GuardianA Chinese woman comes to post-Brexit London to start over - just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch.Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape architect and the two begin to build their fut ...Show more
A Lover's Discourse by Xiaolu Guo
35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A story of desire, love and language - and the meaning of home - told through conversations between two lovers A Chinese woman comes to London to start a new life - away from her dead parents, away from her old world. She knew she would be lonely, but will her new relationship with the Australian-Britis ...Show more
I am China by Xiaolu Guo
34.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In a flat above a noisy north London market, translator Iona Kirkpatrick starts work on a Chinese letter: Dearest Mu, The sun is piercing, old bastard sky. I am feeling empty and bare. Nothing is in my soul, apart from the image of you. I am writing to you from a place I cannot tell you about yet. In a ...Show more
Lovers in the Age of Indifference by Xiaolu Guo
38.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Xiaolu Guo, best known for her enchanting yet sharp take on culture-shock, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, presents a new work of fiction exploring the themes of love and exile that she has so brilliantly made her own.The lovers in the age of indifference are tough romantics from every ...Show more
Once Upon A Time in the East - A Story of Growing up by Xiaolu Guo
28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDXiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born in 1973, her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the mountains. Aged two, and suffering from malnutrition on a diet of yam lea ...Show more
UFO in Her Eyes by Xiaolu Guo
28.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
Silver Hill Village, 2012. On the twentieth day of the seventh moon Kwok Yun is making her way across the rice fields on her Flying Pigeon bicycle. Her world is turned upside down when she sights a UFThing - a spinning plate in the sky - and helps the Westerner in distress whom she discovers in the shad ...Show more
UFO in Her Eyes by Xiaolu Guo
34.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Silver Hill Village, 2012. On the twentieth day of the seventh moon Kwok Yun is making her way across the rice fields on her Flying Pigeon bicycle. Her world is upturned when she sights a UFThing - a spinning plate in the sky - and helps the Westerner in distress whom she discovers in the shadow of the ...Show more
Village of Stone by Xiaolu Guo
34.95 NZD
36.99 (5% off)
Category: Fiction
Coral and her frisbee-obsessed boyfriend, Red live on the ground floor of a cramped tower block in the megalopolis that is Beijing. The very epitome of disaffected, unfulfilled youth, their already fragile existence is shattered by the arrival of a mysterious fishy package - as the smells of the sea flo ...Show more
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