Village Of Stone by Xiaolu Guo
Village of Stone brilliantly evokes the harshness of life on the typhoon-battered coast of China, where fishermen are often lost to violent seas and children regularly swept away.
A refreshing departure from much of the recent Chinese fiction to reach these shoresThe language has the pared-down simplicity of a fable; the effect is a bit like that of a Haruki Murakami novel * Times Literary Supplement *
Open this book and you will see a Chinese girl stepping towards you out of China's past and into its present, with all her dreams and striving -- Xinran
Exquisitely written and intricately contructed * Independent *
Reading it is rather like finding yourself in a dream: "once upon a time..." People are going to like this book very much... What could have been a misery of a story has the mysterious charm of a fairy tale or a legend -- Doris Lessing
Open this book and you will see a Chinese girl stepping towards you out of China's past and into its present, with all her dreams and striving -- Xinran
Exquisitely written and intricately contructed * Independent *
Reading it is rather like finding yourself in a dream: "once upon a time..." People are going to like this book very much... What could have been a misery of a story has the mysterious charm of a fairy tale or a legend -- Doris Lessing
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 | 9780099459071 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099459078 |
| Title | Village Of Stone |
| Author | Xiaolu Guo |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2005-08-04 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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