Language by Xiaolu Guo

Language by Xiaolu Guo

LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the worlds greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series: Babies by Anne Enright Depression by William Styron Race by Toni Morrison Home by Salman Rushdie

An utterly captivating, and disorientating, journey both through language and through love * Independent *
Imagine our joy when Vintage announced that it is publishing a collection of easily digestible books from the world’s most celebrated writers on the experiences that make us human… They look good and read wellThat’s win/win in our book. * Stylist *

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	9781784872700
ISBN 10	1784872709
Title	Language
Author	Xiaolu Guo
Series	Vintage Minis
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2017-06-08
Number of pages	112
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