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37 produkter
Everyday Tang
On What We Can Learn From a Dynasty
Av Xiaolu Guo
Häftad, 2026
134 kr
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After decades living in England, writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo travelled to her native China with her daughter. Her objective was twofold: to show her eleven-year-old where she came from, and to discover what remained of an enigmatic period that had long fascinated her: the magnificent and …
20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
Av Xiaolu Guo
Häftad, 2021
136 kr
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'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic'This is the story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more independent than her provincial roots, gets a job as a film extra in Beijing. But living a modern life is not as easy as it looks in this tumultuous, messy city. Grappling with …
20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
Av Xiaolu Guo
Häftad, 2009
215 kr
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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 potato fields back home. Determined to live a modern life, Fenfang works as a cleaner in the Young …
Village Of Stone
Av Xiaolu Guo
Häftad, 2005
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
179 kr
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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. It is the beautiful, haunting story of one little girl's struggle to endure silence, solitude and the shame of sexual …
Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Av Xiaolu Guo
Häftad, 2008
152 kr
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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. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for …
I Am China
Av Xiaolu Guo
Häftad, 2015
2,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
139 kr
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Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Fiction PrizeIn 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 apart by forces beyond their control.As Iona unravels the story of the lovers, Jian and Mu seem to be …
Call Me Ishmaelle
Av Xiaolu Guo
Häftad, 2026
277 kr
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Ambitious, brave, and strange.Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan From the NBCC-winning author, a subversive, rollicking, and feminist retelling of Moby-Dick through the eyes of one inimitable woman I must work on a ship as a man . . . Yes, I must seek a new life, more adventurous than that of my …
20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
Av Xiaolu Guo
E-bok, 2008
102 kr
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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 potato fields back home. Determined to live a modern life, Fenfang works as a cleaner in the Young …
Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Av Xiaolu Guo
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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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. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for …
UFO in Her Eyes
Av Xiaolu Guo
E-bok, 2012
102 kr
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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 UFThing - a spinning plate in the sky - and helps the Westerner in distress whom she discovers in the …
Because I am a Girl
Av Deborah Moggach, Irvine Welsh m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
125 kr
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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 malnutritionBecause I am a girl I am more likely to suffer violence in the homeBecause I am a girl I am more likely to marry and start a family before I reach my twenties.Eight authors have …
Lovers in the Age of Indifference
Av Xiaolu Guo
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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Discover love and desire from around the globeA marriage splinters during a game of mah jong A depressed fiancée is lifted by a mid-air encounter with a Hollywood legend A mountain keeper watches over a lonely temple but is perturbed when, finally, a visitor dares to arrive.The lovers you'll …
Village Of Stone
Av Xiaolu Guo
E-bok, 2012
100 kr
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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. It is the beautiful, haunting story of one little girl's struggle to endure silence, solitude and the shame of sexual …
I Am China
Av Xiaolu Guo
E-bok, 2014
102 kr
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Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Fiction PrizeIn 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 apart by forces beyond their control.As Iona unravels the story of the lovers, Jian and Mu seem to be …
Once Upon A Time in the East
A Story of Growing up
Av Xiaolu Guo
E-bok, 2017
125 kr
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'This generation's Wild Swans' Daily TelegraphXiaolu 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 to a childless peasant couple in the mountains. Aged two, and suffering from malnutrition on a diet …
Language
Vintage Minis
Av Xiaolu Guo
E-bok, 2017
62 kr
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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. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the language a muddle of personal pronouns and moody verbs. But with increasing fluency in English surviving …
Lover's Discourse
Av Xiaolu Guo
E-bok, 2020
102 kr
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'A fragmentary meditation on the nature of love' GuardianA Chinese woman comes to post-Brexit London to start over - just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch.Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape architect and the two begin to build …
Lover's Discourse
Av Xiaolu Guo
Häftad, 2021
139 kr
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'A fragmentary meditation on the nature of love' GuardianA Chinese woman comes to post-Brexit London to start over - just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch.Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape architect and the two begin to build …
Radical
A Life of My Own
Av Xiaolu Guo
E-bok, 2023
170 kr
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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 and shadow on the complexities of living, loving and language, Xiaolu Guo is one of the most …
My Battle of Hastings
Chronicle of a Year by the Sea
Av Xiaolu Guo
Häftad, 2025
137 kr
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‘This is urgent, compelling but also delightful writing’ Lauren ElkinIn the depths of winter, Xiaolu Guo moves into a tiny dilapidated flat on the Hastings seafront – a room of her own where she can spend time writing, liberated from her domestic responsibilities in London.She immerses herself in …
My Battle of Hastings
Chronicle of a Year by the Sea
Av Xiaolu Guo
E-bok, 2024
179 kr
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‘This is urgent, compelling but also delightful writing’ Lauren ElkinIn the depths of winter, Xiaolu Guo moves into a tiny dilapidated flat on the Hastings seafront – a room of her own where she can spend time writing, liberated from her domestic responsibilities in London.She immerses herself in …
Radical
A Life of My Own
Av Xiaolu Guo
Häftad, 2024
138 kr
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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 and shadow on the complexities of living, loving and language, Xiaolu Guo is one of the most …
Call Me Ishmaelle
Av Xiaolu Guo
Häftad, 2026
152 kr
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‘A smart gender-flipped version of Moby Dick’ Daily Telegraph‘A clever and original skewering of a classic’ i News‘A brilliantly written reordering of Moby-Dick’ Philip HoareCall Me Ishmaelle reimagines the epic battle between man and nature in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick from a female perspective …
Call Me Ishmaelle
Moby Dick reimagined from the perspective of a cross-dressing female sailor
Av Xiaolu Guo
E-bok, 2025
194 kr
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‘A smart gender-flipped version of Moby Dick’ Daily Telegraph‘A clever and original skewering of a classic’ i News‘A brilliantly written reordering of Moby-Dick’ Philip HoareCall Me Ishmaelle reimagines the epic battle between man and nature in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick from a female perspective …
Call Me Ishmaelle
Moby Dick reimagined from the perspective of a cross-dressing female sailor
Av Xiaolu Guo
Ljudbok, 2025
206 kr
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Brought to you by Penguin. I must work on a ship as a man… Yes, I must seek a new life, more adventurous than that of my fellows on this desolate salt marsh. I must find freedom on the seas. 1843. Ishmaelle is born in a small village on the stormy Kent coast where she grows up swimming with …
Once Upon A Time in the East
A Story of Growing up
Av Xiaolu Guo
Häftad, 2018
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
162 kr
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*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award* *Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award**Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize**Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018**A Sunday Times Book of the Year*Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are …
Radical
Av Xiaolu Guo
Häftad, 2023
189 kr
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The world can seem strange and lonely when you step away from your family and everything you have tried to call your own. Yet beauty may also appear. In the autumn of 2019 Xiaolu travelled to New York to take up her position as a visiting professor for a year, leaving her child and partner behind …
Call Me Ishmaelle
Av Xiaolu Guo
Häftad, 2025
187 kr
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Moby-Dick reimagined from the perspective of a cross-dressed female sailor 'Brilliantly written... ambitious, brave, strange' Philip Hoare 'One of the most valuable writers in the world' Deborah Levy 1843. Ishmaelle is born in a small village on the stormy Kent coast where she grows up swimming …
