A bewitching novel about memory, loss and the search for redemption, from one of China s freshest voices. Coral and her frisbee-obsessed boyfriend, Red, live in a cramped tower block in the megalopolis that is modern-day Beijing. The epitome of disaffected youth, their already fragile existence is shattered by the arrival of a mysterious fishy package. As the smells of the sea wash over her, Coral is transported back to a traumatic childhood dominated by solitude, fear and shame. Coral was raised by silent grandparents among the stern and superstitious fishermen of the remote village of...
A bewitching novel about memory, loss and the search for redemption, from one of China s freshest voices. Coral and her frisbee-obsessed boyfriend...
Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain...
Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of te...
Life as a film extra in Beijing might seem hard, but Fenfang the spirited heroine of this novel won't be defeated. She has travelled 1800 miles to seek her fortune in the city, and has no desire to return to the never-ending sweet potato fields back home
Life as a film extra in Beijing might seem hard, but Fenfang the spirited heroine of this novel won't be defeated. She has travelled 1800 miles to see...
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.
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 wh...
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.
In this collection of stories, writer & filmmaker, Xiaolu Guo zooms into tender & surreal moments in the lives of lost souls and lovers, adrift betwee...
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 detention centre in Dover exiled Chinese musician Jian is awaiting an unknown fate. In Beijing his girlfriend Mu sends desperate letters to London to track him down, her last memory of them together a roaring rock concert and Jian the king on stage. Until the state police stormed in. As Iona...
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...
