Xiaolu Guo gehört zu den interessantesten Autorinnen der jüngeren Generation in China. 1973 in einer kleinen Stadt am Chinesischen Meer geboren, ging sie mit 18 Jahren nach Beijing, wo sie an der Filmhochschule studierte. Im Jahr 2002 zog sie nach London. Ihr noch in China geschriebener Roman „Stadt der Steine“ wurde hier 2004 von Presse und Lesern begeistert aufgenommen. Danach begann Guo, auf Englisch zu schreiben. All ihre nachfolgenden Romane waren für renommierte Preise nominiert. Mit ihrer Autobiographie „Es war einmal in Fernen Osten“ gewann sie den National Book Critics Circle Award 2017.Die Autorin lebt mit ihrer Familie in London und Berlin.
27 Ebooks por Xiaolu Guo
Xiaolu Guo: Nine Continents
The acclaimed novelist’s award-winning memoir of growing up in a remote Chinese fishing village is “a rich and insightful coming-of-age story” (Kirkus). The acclaimed author …
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Ali Smith & Ales Steger: 1914-Goodbye to All That
A wide-ranging collection of reflective essays, to mark the centenary of the conflict that changed the world.In this collection of essays, ten leading writers from different countries consider the …
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€7.00
Xiaolu Guo: Kleines Wörterbuch für Liebende
Lost in Translation zwischen Peking und London
Die junge Chinesin Zhuang reist zum ersten Mal in den Westen und taucht in eine fremde Welt ein. Sprache und Umgangsformen, Essen und Trinken, Liebe …
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Xiaolu Guo: Ich bin China
Über die Rolle des Künstlers in einer von ideologischen Kämpfen zerrissenen Welt
In einem Land, in dem die Freiheit ein rares Gut ist, sind die beiden Liebenden Mu und Jian Teil einer subversiven …
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€15.99
Xiaolu Guo: Ein Ufo, dachte sie
Eine herrliche Satire auf blinden Fortschrittsglauben in China und anderswo
Spätestens seit dem »Kleinen Wörterbuch für Liebende« hat die in London lebende Chinesin Xiaolu Guo die deutschen Leser …
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Xiaolu Guo: Es war einmal im Fernen Osten
East goes West – Ein Leben zwischen zwei Welten.
Es ist kein einfacher Start ins Leben: Gleich nach der Geburt geben die Eltern, glühende Anhänger Maos, ihre Tochter in die Obhut eines kinderlose …
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€9.99
Xiaolu Guo: Stadt der Steine
Die ergreifende Reise einer jungen Chinesin zu ihren Ursprüngen
Als die junge Chinesin Coral eines Tages einen getrockneten Aal aus ihrem Heimatdorf zugeschickt bekommt, bricht die Vergangenheit …
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Xiaolu Guo: 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
Life as a film extra in Beijing might seem hard, but Fenfang 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 …
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Xiaolu Guo: Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself – Westerners cannot pronounce her name) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. …
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Xiaolu Guo: UFO in Her Eyes
Silver Hill Village, 2012. On the twentieth day of the seventh moon Kwok Yun is making her way across the rice fields on her Flying Pigeon bicycle. Her world is turned upside down when she sights a …
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Tim Butcher & Xiaolu Guo: Because I am a Girl
Because I am a girl I am less likely to go to school Because I am a girl I am more likely to suffer from malnutrition Because I am a girl I am more likely to suffer violence in the home Because I am …
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Xiaolu Guo: Lovers in the Age of Indifference
Discover love and desire from around the globe A marriage splinters during a game of mah jong A depressed fianc e is lifted by a mid-air encounter with a Hollywood legend A mountain keeper watches …
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Xiaolu Guo: Village Of Stone
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. It is the …
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Xiaolu Guo: I Am China
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. Two lovers, Mu and Jian, have been driven …
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Xiaolu Guo: Once Upon A Time in the East
‘This generation’s Wild Swans’ Daily Telegraph Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her.When she is born in 1973, her parents hand her over …
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Xiaolu Guo: Language
Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the …
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Xiaolu Guo: Lover’s Discourse
‘A fragmentary meditation on the nature of love’ Guardian A Chinese woman comes to post-Brexit London to start over – just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. Isolated and lonely in a …
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Xiaolu Guo: Lover’s Discourse
A story of desire, love, language, and the meaning of home set against the backdrop of Brexit London—from the award-winning author of Nine Continents. A Chinese woman moves from Beijing to …
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€20.26
Xiaolu Guo: Eine Sprache der Liebe
Eine Liebe im Spannungsfeld von östlicher und westlicher Lebenswelt: charmant, poetisch und voller Humor
Eine junge Chinesin kommt nach London. Sie lässt alles hinter sich, will ein neues Leben b …
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Xiaolu Guo: Radical
The new memoir from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo – playful, provocative and original, it’s her deeply personal take on striving for a life of her own’When it comes to spinning light …
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Xiaolu Guo: Radical
Xiaolu Guo has been lauded as a “voice . . . speaking with full freedom” (Wall Street Journal), which has made her one of the most acclaimed Chinese-born writers of her generation. She is the Nationa …
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Xiaolu Guo: My Battle of Hastings
‘One of the most valuable writers in the world’ Deborah Levy My Battle of Hastings is an exploration of how an immigrant, an outsider and a woman can embrace local and national history.In winter …
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Therese Henningsen and Juliette Joffé: Strangers Within
'The foreigner is within me, hence we're all foreigners. If we're all foreigners, there are no foreigners.' – Julia Kristeva
Strangers Within is an anthology exploring the idea …
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