Lovers in the Age of Indifference

ISBN-13: 9780701184834 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 224 str.

Xiaolu Guo

Opis

In this collection of stories, writer & filmmaker, Xiaolu Guo zooms into tender & surreal moments in the lives of lost souls and lovers, adrift between West and East. Her personal, provocative & charming fables capture the sense of alienation thrown up by life in the modern world.

Recenzje

Witty and original...one of China's most successful literary exports Guardian

O autorze

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.