UFO in Her Eyes

ISBN-13: 9780099526674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 208 str.

Xiaolu Guo

Opis

Silver Hill Village, 2012. On the 20th day of the seventh moon Kwok Yun is making her way across the rice fields on her bike. Her world is upturned when she sights a UFThing - a spinning plate in the sky - and helps the Westerner in distress whom she discovers in the shadow of the alien craft.

Recenzje

Guo's humour is bracingly ironic and tinderbox dry The Times

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.