age ~59
from Edmonds, WA
Xiaolu Guo (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Gu Xiol) born 1973) is a Chinese-born British novelist and filmmaker, who uses...
ISBN #
2
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 Pione...
Author
Xiaolu Guo
Binding
Paperback
Pages
208
Publisher
Vintage Books USA
ISBN #
0099512939
EAN Code
9780099512936
ISBN #
9
Seven writers, including Joanne Harris, Marie Phillips, and Irvine Welsh, spent time with a charity promoting the development of women and girls—and were inspired to write an extraordinary array of stories and essays that statistics cannot convey Irvine Welsh tells a story of prostitutes in the Domi...
Author
Tim Butcher, Xiaolu Guo, Joanne Harris, Kathy Lette, Marie Phillips, Irvine Welsh, Deborah Moggach
Binding
Paperback
Pages
190
Publisher
Random House UK
ISBN #
7
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 ...
Author
Xiaolu Guo
Binding
Paperback
Pages
208
Publisher
Vintage Books USA
ISBN #
0099526670
EAN Code
9780099526674
ISBN #
6
Drawing inspiration from the title of Robert Graves's "bitter leave-taking of England", 1914-Goodbye to All That tries to address some of the issues raised in that work: how to live, how to live with each other, and how to write. Lavinia Greenlaw has invited leading writers from some of the countri...
Author
Jeanette Winterson, Elif Shafak, NoViolet Bulawayo, Colm Toibin, Xiaolu Guo, Erwin Mortier, Alessandro Baricco, Kamila Shamsie, Daniel Kehlmann
Binding
Paperback
Pages
192
Publisher
Pushkin Press
ISBN #
178227118X
EAN Code
9781782271185
ISBN #
5
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 of disaffected youth, their already fragile existence is sh...
Author
Xiaolu Guo
Binding
Mass Market Paperback
Pages
196
Publisher
Vintage Books
ISBN #
0099484951
EAN Code
9780099484950
ISBN #
4
From the author of the 2007 Orange Prize finalist A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers comes a wholly original and thoroughly captivating coming-of-age story that follows a bright, impassioned young woman as she rushes headlong into the maelstrom of a rapidly changing Beijing to chase her...
Author
Xiaolu Guo
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
167
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
ISBN #
0385525923
EAN Code
9780385525923
ISBN #
3
A sweeping, romantic, and complex novel about two young lovers in contemporary China who struggle to overcome politics, family, and secrets of the past.Mu is a young girl in Beijing, a singer, who is in love with a famous young punk rock musician named Jiang. Jiang has subversive political views, an...
Author
Xiaolu Guo
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
384
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
ISBN #
0385538715
EAN Code
9780385538718
ISBN #
2
Language and love collide in this inventive novel of a young Chinese woman's journey to the West and her attempts to understand the language, and the man, she adores.Zhuang – or “Z,” to tongue-tied foreigners – has come to London to study English, but finds herself adrift, trapped in a cycle of cult...
Author
Xiaolu Guo
Binding
Paperback
Pages
304
Publisher
Anchor
ISBN #
0307278409
EAN Code
9780307278401
ISBN #
1