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Once Upon A Time in the East - A Story of Growing up (Paperback)
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Once Upon A Time in the East - A Story of Growing up (Paperback)
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List price R331
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Discovery Miles 2 760
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*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award* *Shortlisted for
the Costa Biography Award* *Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize*
*Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018* *A Sunday Times
Book of the Year* Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time
when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her. When she is
born in 1973, her parents hand her over to a childless peasant
couple in the mountains. Aged two, and suffering from malnutrition
on a diet of yam leaves, they leave Xiaolu with her illiterate
grandparents in a fishing village on the East China Sea. Once Upon
a Time in the East takes Xiaolu from a run-down shack to film
school in a rapidly changing Beijing, navigating the everyday
peculiarity of modern China: censorship, underground art, Western
boyfriends. In 2002 she leaves Beijing on a scholarship to study in
Britain. Now, after a decade in Europe, her tale of East to West
resonates with the insight that can only come from someone who is
both an outsider and at home. 'This generation's Wild Swans' Daily
Telegraph
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