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20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
$23.00 AUD
Category: Vintage Classics | 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 Lover's Discourse by Xiaolu Guo
$28.00 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
I am China by Xiaolu Guo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In a flat above a noisy north London market, translator Iona Kirkpatrick starts work on a Chinese letter: Dearest Mu, The sun is piercing, old bastard sky. I am feeling empty and bare. Nothing is in my soul, apart from the image of you. I am writing to you from a place I cannot tell you about yet. In a ...Show more
Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up by Xiaolu Guo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Asian
'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
$33.00 AUD
Category: Literary
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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