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20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world '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 e ...Show more
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - Vintage Voyages by Xiaolu Guo
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindTwenty-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 ...Show more
A Lover's Discourse by Xiaolu Guo
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A fragmentary meditation on the nature of love' GuardianA 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 fut ...Show more
A Lover's Discourse by Xiaolu Guo
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 dead parents, away from her old world. She knew she would be lonely, but will her new relationship with the Australian-Britis ...Show more
Once Upon A Time in the East - A Story of Growing up by Xiaolu Guo
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDXiaolu 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 lea ...Show more
Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up by Xiaolu Guo
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Ah, Xiaolu, you are so big now!' Then I heard my grandmother speaking behind the woman, 'This is your mother, call her mother!' I stared at the woman, perplexed. Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is six. They are strangers to her. When Xiaolu is born her parents hand her over to ...Show more
Radical: A Woman's Journey Through Wordscapes by Xiaolu Guo
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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 ownThe 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 a ...Show more
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