I Am China

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Longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Fiction PrizeIn a flat above a noisy north London market, translator Iona Kirkpatrick starts work on a Chinese letter. Two lovers, Mu and Jian, have been driven apart by forces beyond their control.As Iona unravels the story of the lovers, Jian and Mu seem to be travelling further and further away from each other. Iona, intoxicated by their romance, sets out to bring them back together, but time is running out.Xiaolu Guo was named as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists

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Weight 0.266 kg
Dimensions 2.3 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
Author(s)

Format Old`

Language
Pages

384
Publisher

Year Published

2015-8-6
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0099583739
About The Author

Xiaolu Guo was born in China. She published six books before moving to Britain in 2002. Her books include: Village of Stone, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and I Am China. Her recent memoir, Once Upon a Time in the East, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018. It was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Her most recent novel A Lover's Discourse was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a visiting professor at the Free University in Berlin.

Heart-wrenching… An extraordinary and important book
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Beautifully written… Genuinely affecting… Exceptional

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