A tale of the unexpected from Orange Prize shortlisted Xiaolu Guo
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.
Guo's humour is bracingly ironic and tinderbox dry
*The Times*
A fast moving, barbed polemic...a sharp little book in which the
legacy of the Cultural Revolution shimmers and festers... A writer
to read, a writer who makes every word count
*Irish Times*
A breath of the freshest air imaginable. She cuts through the smog
of hype and platitude
*Independent*
Sprightly... the comedy is neatly poised... a damning portrait of
totalitarian China
*Scotland on Sunday*
The novel resonates in revelations of loss and pain
*Guardian*
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