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Vintage Minis
$18.70
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
29 May 2017
Summary
Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between.
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 disorienting, the people unfriendly, the language a muddle of personal pronouns and moody verbs. But with increasing fluency in English, surviving turns to living. And they say that the best way to…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784872700 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1784872709 |
| Author: | Xiaolu Guo |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 29 May 2017 |
| Weight: | 60g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 111mm x 177mm |
| Series: | Vintage Minis |
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Critics Review
An utterly captivating, and disorientating, journey both through language and through love
An utterly captivating, and disorientating, journey both through language and through love * Independent *
Imagine our joy when Vintage announced that it is publishing a collection of easily digestible books from the world’s most celebrated writers on the experiences that make us human… They look good and read well. That’s win/win in our book. * Stylist *
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
- 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.
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