Xiaolu Guo

I Am China

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In a detention centre in Dover, exiled Chinese musician Jian is awaiting an unknown fate. In the lively streets of East London, translator Iona begins to decipher some ink-smudged letters and diary entries. They belong to Jian and his girlfriend Mu, writing from small-town America. I AM CHINA is a love story of modern times and a vibrant, wise and very funny portrayal of multicultural society.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-09-958373-8
EAN: 9780099583738
Produktnummer: 16880375
Verlag: Random House UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 384 S.
Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
Masse: H19.7 cm x B13.1 cm x D2.7 cm 309 g
Gewicht: 309

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.