Xiaolu Guo

• Oct-2005
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A bewitching novel about memory, loss and the search for redemption, from one of China’s freshest voices.

Coral and her frisbee-obsessed boyfriend, Red, live in a cramped tower block in the megalopolis that is modern-day Beijing. The epitome...

• Jun-2008
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From one of our most important contemporary Chinese authors: a novel of language and love that tells one young Chinese woman's story of her journey to the West -- and her attempts to understand the language, and the man, she adores. Zhuang -- or “Z...

• Aug-2008
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Twenty-one year old Fenfang Wang has traveled one thousand eight hundred miles to seek her fortune in contemporary urban Beijing, and has no desire to return to the drudgery of the sweet potato fields back home. However, Fenfang is ill-prepared for w...

• Nov-2012
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• Sep-2014
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London translator Iona Kirkpatrick is at work on a new project: a collection of letters and diaries by a Chinese punk guitarist named Kublai Jian. As she translates the handwritten pages, a story of romance and revolution emerges between Jian, who be...

• Apr-2017
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• Jun-2017
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Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the language a muddle of personal pronouns and moody verbs....

• Oct-2020
• / Literary
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A story of desire, love, language, and the meaning of home set against the backdrop of Brexit London -- from the award-winning author of Nine Continents. A Chinese woman moves from Beijing to London for a doctoral program -- and to begin a new life -...

• Sep-2021
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