I Am China by Xiaolu Guo

I Am China by Xiaolu Guo

Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Fiction Prize In a flat above a noisy north London market, translator Iona Kirkpatrick starts work on a Chinese letter.

Heart-wrenching… An extraordinary and important book -- Charlie Cooper * Independent *
Beautifully written… Genuinely affecting… Exceptional * Scotland on Sunday *
An ambitious, thought-provoking and engaging narrative -- Jane Shilling * Evening Standard *
Beautifully rendered * New York Times *
Beautifully done -- Viv Groskop * Red *

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.

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ISBN 13	9780099583738
ISBN 10	0099583739
Title	I Am China
Author	Xiaolu Guo
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2015-08-06
Number of pages	384
Prizes	Long-listed for Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction 2015 (UK)
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