Xiaolu Guo was born in south China. She studied at the Beijing Film
Academy and published six books in China before moving to London in
2002. Her books include Village of Stone which was shortlisted for
the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, A Concise Chinese-English
Dictionary for Lovers which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize,
20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth which was longlisted for the Man
Asian Literary Prize, and I Am China which was longlisted for the
Women's Prize for Fiction. Her recent memoir, Once Upon a Time in
the East, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was
shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, the Jhalak Prize and the
Rathbones Folio Award 2018, and was a Sunday Times Book of the
Year.
In 2013 Xiaolu was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British
Novelists. She has directed several award-winning films including
She, A Chinese, and documentaries about China and Britain. She was
a judge for the Booker Prize in 2019, and is currently a visiting
professor at Columbia University in New York.
When it comes to spinning light and shadow on the complexities of
living, loving and language, Xiaolu Guo is one of the most valuable
writers in the world
*DEBORAH LEVY*
An etymological voyage that lives up to its title: radical in angle
of attack, smart and brave. Making the urban condition of
restlessness and pain into poetry
*IAIN SINCLAIR, author of The Gold Machine*
A wild, passionate, gorgeous book, wandering the borders of
language and desire; walking cities and remembering the ghosts of
past landscapes. Xiaolu Guo's books always open up new connections
and curiosities for me. She is certainly among my favourite
contemporary writers
*AYSEGUL SAVAS, author of White on White*
Xiaolu Guo is a writer like no other, and this is a memoir like no
other
*RANA MITTER, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern
China, University of Oxford*
Xiaolu Guo is a writer like no other, and this is a memoir like no
other. Organised through a series of words that cut across
languages, the book shows the divides and the connections that
define a life lived between China, Europe and America, all
explained with wit, lightness of touch and the occasional pinch of
heartbreak
*RANA MITTER*
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