Xiaolu Guo

Lovers in the Age of Indifference

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Xiaolu Guo, best known for her enchanting yet sharp take on culture-shock, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, presents a new work of fiction exploring the themes of love and exile that she has so brilliantly made her own.The Lovers in the Age of Indifference are tough romantics from every corner of the planet: a marriage splinters during a game of mahjong; a chair-lift leads to a mid-air encounter with Robert Redford high over the Rockies; a lonely mountain keeper watches over a seldom-visited temple but is perturbed when, finally, a visitor dares to arrive.In this engagingly maverick collection, writer and filmmaker Guo zooms i… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7011-8483-4
EAN: 9780701184834
Produktnummer: 17462453
Verlag: Random House UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.4 cm x D1.7 cm 249 g
Gewicht: 249

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.