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Xiaolu Guo

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20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth

(Paperback)

By: Xiaolu Guo

ISBN: 9781784877446
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 14th October 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A Lover's Discourse

(Paperback)

By: Xiaolu Guo

ISBN: 9781529112481
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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My Battle of Hastings

(Hardback)

By: Xiaolu Guo

ISBN: 9781784745370
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up

(Paperback)

By: Xiaolu Guo

ISBN: 9781784702946
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the mountains. Aged two, and suffering from malnutrition on a diet of yam leaves, they leave Xiaolu with her illiterate grandparents in a fishing village on the East China Sea.

Radical: A Life of My Own

(Paperback)

By: Xiaolu Guo

ISBN: 9781529920024
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Call Me Ishmaelle

(Paperback)

By: Xiaolu Guo

ISBN: 9781784745615
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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My Battle of Hastings: Chronicle of a Year by the Sea

(Paperback)

By: Xiaolu Guo

ISBN: 9781529918670
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 20th March 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth

(Paperback)

By: Xiaolu Guo

ISBN: 9780099512936
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2009
UK Publication Date: 1st January 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Life as a film extra in Beijing might seem hard, but Fenfang won't be defeated. Determined to live a modern life, Fenfang works as a cleaner in the Young Pioneer's movie theatre, falls in love with unsuitable men and keeps her kitchen cupboard stocked with UFO instant noodles.

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

(Paperback)

By: Xiaolu Guo

ISBN: 9780099501473
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2008
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) 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...

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers: (Vintage Voyages)

(Paperback)

By: Xiaolu Guo

ISBN: 9781784875312
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A charming and clever account of one womans exploration of love, language and identity.

Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English.

Call Me Ishmaelle

(Hardback)

By: Xiaolu Guo

ISBN: 9781784745608
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 20th March 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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I Am China

(Paperback)

By: Xiaolu Guo

ISBN: 9780099583738
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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.

Language: Vintage Minis

(Paperback)

By: Xiaolu Guo

ISBN: 9781784872700
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 8th June 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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. But with increasing fluency in English surviving turns to living. And they say that the best way to learn a language is to fall in love with a native speaker...

Lovers in the Age of Indifference

(Paperback)

By: Xiaolu Guo

ISBN: 9780701184834
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The lovers in the age of indifference are tough romantics from every corner of the planet: a marriage splinters during a game of mah jong;

UFO in Her Eyes

(Paperback)

By: Xiaolu Guo

ISBN: 9780099526674
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Her world is turned upside down 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. And when the Westerner that Kwok Yun saved repays her kindness with a large dollar cheque she becomes a local celebrity, albeit under constant surveillance...

Village Of Stone

(Paperback)

By: Xiaolu Guo

ISBN: 9780099459071
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2005
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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.