I Am China
by GUO, XIAOLU
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XIAOLU GUO was born in a fishing village in south China. She studied film at the Beijing Film Academy and published six books in China before she moved to London in 2002. The English translation of Village of Stone was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her first novel written in English, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers , was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, and 2 0 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth , published in 2008, was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. She was named as one of Granta 's Best of Young British Novelists 2013.
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- I Am China
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- GUO, XIAOLU
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- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus 2014
- Keywords
- modern first editions uncorrected proof copies literature fiction novels Xiaolu Guo
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