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With an introduction by Xiaolu Guo A classic memoir set during the
Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing
a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America. When we
Chinese girls listened to the adults talking-story, we learned that
we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be
heroines, swordswomen. Throughout her childhood, Maxine Hong
Kingston listened to her mother's mesmerizing tales of a China
where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong,
wily woman can scratch her way upwards. Growing up in a changing
America, surrounded by Chinese myth and memory, this is her story
of two cultures and one trenchant, lyrical journey into womanhood.
Complex and beautiful, angry and adoring, Maxine Hong Kingston's
The Woman Warrior is a seminal piece of writing about emigration
and identity. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976
and is widely hailed as a feminist classic.
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Letters to a Writer of Color (Paperback)
Deepa Anappara, Taymour Soomro; Contributions by Madeleine Thien, Tiphanie Yanique, Xiaolu Guo
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The new memoir from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo -
playful, provocative and original, it's her deeply personal take on
striving for a life of her own '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
The world can seem strange and lonely when you step away from your
family and everything you have tried to call your own. Yet beauty
may also appear. In the autumn of 2019 Xiaolu travelled to New York
to take up her position as a visiting professor for a year, leaving
her child and partner behind in London. The encounter with American
culture and people threatens her sense of identity and throws her
into a crisis - of meaning, desire, obligation and selfhood. This
is a memoir about separation - by continents, by language, and from
people. It's about being an outsider and the desperate longing to
connect. Xiaolu uses her exploration of language (one of the
meanings of the word 'radical' is the graphic component, or root,
of Chinese characters), and her own life, to create this unique
text. At once a memoir, a dictionary, and an ardent love letter, it
is an expression of her fascination with Western culture and her
nostalgia for Eastern landscapes, and an attempt to describe the
space in between. An archive of an artist's search for creative
freedom, it is above all else an intimate account of her efforts to
carve out a life of her own. 'Radical in angle of attack, smart and
brave' IAIN SINCLAIR, author of The Gold Machine
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Not Quite Right For Us (Paperback)
Sharmilla Beezmohun; Foreword by Linton Kwesi Johnson; Xiaolu Guo, Kerry Hudson, Jay Bernard, …
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Defiant, humorous, empathetic and insightful, 'Not Quite Right For
Us' pierces through the hierarchical mechanics of class, race,
gender. A celebration of outsiderness and an ode to otherness, 'Not
Quite Right For Us' is a singular collection of stories, essays and
poems by a dynamic mix of established and surging voices alike,
edited by Sharmilla Beezmohun and including Linton Kwesi Johnson,
Aminatta Forna, Xiaolu Guo, Johny Pitts, Rishi Dastidar, Tim Wells
and Rafeef Ziadah. This remarkable anthology marks the tenth
anniversary of the live-literature organisation co-founded by
Sharmilla, Speaking Volumes. Part cri du coeur, part warning shot,
part affirmation, this is the book we need now.
The world can seem strange and lonely when you step away from your
family and everything you have tried to call your own. Yet beauty
may also appear. In the autumn of 2019 Xiaolu travelled to New York
to take up her position as a visiting professor for a year, leaving
her child and partner behind in London. The encounter with American
culture and people threatens her sense of identity and throws her
into a crisis - of meaning, desire, obligation and selfhood. This
is a memoir about separation - by continents, by language, and from
people. It's about being an outsider and the desperate longing to
connect. Xiaolu uses her exploration of language (one of the
meanings of the word 'radical' is the graphic component, or root,
of Chinese characters), and her own life, to create this unique
text. At once a memoir, a dictionary, and an ardent love letter, it
is an expression of her fascination with Western culture and her
nostalgia for Eastern landscapes, and an attempt to describe the
space in between. An archive of an artist's search for creative
freedom, it is above all else an intimate account of her efforts to
carve out a life of her own.
The new memoir from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo -
playful, provocative and original, it's her deeply personal take on
striving for a life of her own '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
The world can seem strange and lonely when you step away from your
family and everything you have tried to call your own. Yet beauty
may also appear. In the autumn of 2019 Xiaolu travelled to New York
to take up her position as a visiting professor for a year, leaving
her child and partner behind in London. The encounter with American
culture and people threatens her sense of identity and throws her
into a crisis - of meaning, desire, obligation and selfhood. This
is a memoir about separation - by continents, by language, and from
people. It's about being an outsider and the desperate longing to
connect. Xiaolu uses her exploration of language (one of the
meanings of the word 'radical' is the graphic component, or root,
of Chinese characters), and her own life, to create this unique
text. At once a memoir, a dictionary, and an ardent love letter, it
is an expression of her fascination with Western culture and her
nostalgia for Eastern landscapes, and an attempt to describe the
space in between. An archive of an artist's search for creative
freedom, it is above all else an intimate account of her efforts to
carve out a life of her own. 'Radical in angle of attack, smart and
brave' IAIN SINCLAIR, author of The Gold Machine
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 disorientating, 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 learn a language is to fall in love with a
native speaker... Selected from the book A Concise Chinese-English
Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG
IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's
greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the
Vintage Minis series: Babies by Anne Enright Depression by William
Styron Race by Toni Morrison Home by Salman Rushdie
*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
'It is hard not to be impressed by Guo's vivacious talent' Sunday
Times A story of desire, love and language - and the meaning of
home - told through conversations between two lovers A Chinese
woman comes to London to start a new life, away from her old world.
She knew she would be lonely, adrift in the city, but will her new
relationship bring her closer to this land she has chosen, will
their love give her a home? A Lover's Discourse is an exploration
of romantic love told through fragments of conversations between
the two lovers. Playing with language and the cultural differences
that her narrator encounters as she settles into life in a
post-Brexit Britain, Xiaolu Guo shows us how this couple navigate
these differences, and their romance, whether on their unmoored
houseboat or in a stifling flatshare in east London, or journeying
through other continents together... Suffused with a wonderful
sense of humour, this intimate and tender novel asks universal
questions: what is the meaning of home when we've been uprooted?
How can a man and woman be together? And how best to find solid
ground in a world of uncertainty?
A charming and clever account of one woman's exploration of love,
language and identity. Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she
calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English.
Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of
tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and
begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier
terrain... VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest
mountains to the depths of the mind
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 Pioneer's movie theatre, falls in
love with unsuitable men and keeps her kitchen cupboard stocked
with UFO instant noodles. As Fenfang might say, Heavenly Bastard in
the Sky, isn't it about time I got my lucky break? Longlisted for
the Man Asian Literary Prize.
Village of Stone brilliantly evokes the harshness of life on the
typhoon-battered coast of China, where fishermen are often lost to
violent seas and children regularly swept away. It is the
beautiful, haunting story of one little girl's struggle to endure
silence, solitude and the shame of sexual abuse, but it is also an
incisive portrait of China's new urban youth, who have hidden
behind their modern lifestyle all the poverty and cruelty of their
past.
'A fragmentary meditation on the nature of love' Guardian A Chinese
woman comes to post-Brexit London to start over - just as the
Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. Isolated and lonely in a
Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape
architect and the two begin to build their future together. Playing
with language and the cultural differences that our narrator
encounters as she settles into her new life, the lovers must
navigate their differences and their romance, whether on their
unmoored houseboat or in a cramped apartment in east London.
Suffused with a wonderful sense of humour, this intimate novel asks
what it means to make a home and a family in a new land.
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction Twenty-three-year-old
Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself - Westerners cannot pronounce her
name) arrives in London to spend a year learning English.
Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of
tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and
begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier
terrain... Xiaolu Guo was named as one of Granta's Best of Young
British Novelists
'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic' This is the
story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more
independent than her provincial roots, gets a job as a film extra
in Beijing. But living a modern life is not as easy as it looks in
this tumultuous, messy city. Grappling with the narrow world of
cinema, an outworn Communist regime, and the city's
far-from-progressive attitudes to women, charismatic Fenfang finds
her true freedom in the one place she never expected. 20 Fragments
of a Ravenous Youth is a sparkling and wry coming-of-age story
about the changing identity of women in contemporary China. Meet
ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold
portraits by female photographers from around the world.
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 shadow of the alien craft. It's
not long before the village is crawling with men from the National
Security and Intelligence Agency armed with pointed questions. And
when the Westerner that Kwok Yun saved repays her kindness with a
large dollar cheque she becomes a local celebrity, albeit under
constant surveillance...
1980's was written by a teenage girl growing up in China. It shows
her issues with her family, her friends, and her school. Will she
belong? Will you belong? Will she cry? Will you cry? This is an
illustrated book for teenagers exploring their own issues.
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