Xiaolu Guo

A Lover's Discourse

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'A fragmentary meditation on the nature of love' GuardianA Chinese woman comes to post-Brexit 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 love give her a home? A Lover's Discourse is an exploration of romantic love told through fragments of conversations between the two lovers as they navigate their romance on their unmoored houseboat and in a stifling flatshare in East London.Suffused with a wonderful sense of humour, this intimate and tender novel asks universal questions: What is the meaning of home w… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5291-1248-1
EAN: 9781529112481
Produktnummer: 34550277
Verlag: Random House UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.9 cm

Über den Autor

Xiaolu Guo was born in south China. She studied at the Beijing Film Academy and published six books in China before moving to London in 2002. Her books include Village of Stone which was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth which was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and I Am China which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her recent memoir, Once Upon a Time in the East, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, the Jhalak Prize and the Rathbones Folio Award 2018, and was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. In 2013 Xiaolu was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. She has directed several award-winning films including She, A Chinese, and documentaries about China and Britain. She was a judge for the Booker Prize in 2019, and is currently a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York.