A memoir of growing up in modern China from the Orange-shortlisted and Granta Best Young British Novelist.
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.
Stunning...This book will make your jaw drop, then clench in
anger.
*Telegraph*
Guo is rebellious, flamboyant and fundamentally
optimistic...fascinating.
*Scotland on Sunday*
Riveting...Guo is an angrier, bolder, more ambitious figure than
her forebears.
*The Times*
Utterly compelling... She writes superbly about her struggle to
escape the constraints of gender, poverty and state interference.
This extraordinary memoir will enhance her burgeoning
reputation.
*Sunday Times*
Aside from the fast-paced plot, this is most interesting for its
probing portrayal of Guo’s ambivalent relationship with her
homeland… An impressive feature of this moving and often
exhilarating book is the brutality of her portrait of her
parents.
*Financial Times*
This generation's Wild Swans
*Daily Telegraph*
A new Wild Swans. A compelling memoir fit to sit alongside Jung
Chang’s classic
*Sunday Times*
This autobiography is her account of fiery, artistic defiance and a
testament to the act of storytelling as a way to break the
silence... Guo writes in the audacious, restless and fragmented
prose that has become her imprint: a feverish style that can be as
merciless as the world she portrays.
*New Statesman*
Guo's autobiography picks up almost precisely where Chang's [Wild
Swans] left off - in 1978, when she is five - and guides us through
the brutal industrialisation of a country in which Wild Swans
remains a banned book. Guo's writing is more personal and poetic
than Chang's crisp, scholarly prose - and more openly angry.
*Irish Independent*
The life story of the young Chinese filmmaker and novelist Xiaolu
Guo makes Cinderella’s seem bland… Don’t be deceived by the
calmness of her prose, because you should feel for her… Her writing
here is raw and powerful… I applaud her tale of survival, because
it is one that lingers… night after night
*Spectator*
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