Xiaolu Guo Knihy

V bytě nad hlučným tržištěm v severním Londýně se mladá překladatelka Iona Kirkpatricková pouští do překladu čínského dopisu: Nejdražší Mu, slunce tu neúprosně praží. Svinská nebeská výheň. Připadám si prázdný a obnažený. V duši nemám mimo Tvé podoby zhola nic. Píšu Ti z místa, které Ti zatím nemohu prozradit…V detenčním centru v Doveru čeká vyhoštěný čínský hudebník na svůj osud. Jeho pekingská přítelkyně Mu se ho zoufale snaží najít a posílá do Londýna jeden dopis za druhým. Naposledy byli spolu na bouřlivém rockovém koncertu, kde Ťien kraloval pódiu. Jenže pak dovnitř vtrhla policie a odvlekla ho kdoví kam. Ionu jejich složitý příběh plný lásky fascinuje a rozhodne se milence svést zpět k sobě, jenže čas jí utíká pod rukama...

Defiant, humorous and insightful, 'Not Quite Right For Us' pierces through the hierarchical mechanics of class, race, gender. A celebration of outsiderness and an ode to otherness, 'Not Quite Right For Us' is a singular collection of stories, essays and poems by a dynamic mix of established and surging voices alike, edited by Sharmilla Beezmohun.

Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost 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. It's a strange beginning. A Wild Swans for a new generation, Once Upon a Time in the East takes Xiaolu from a run-down shack to film school in a rapidly changing Beijing, navigating the everyday peculiarity of modern China- censorship, underground art, Western boyfriends. In 2002 she leaves Beijing on a scholarship to study in Britain. Now, after a decade in Europe, her tale of East to West resonates with the insight that can only come from someone who is both an outsider and at home. Xiaolu Guo's extraordinary memoir is a handbook of life lessons. How to be an artist when censorship kills creativity and the only job you can get is writing bad telenovela scripts. How to be a woman when female babies are regularly drowned at birth and sexual abuse is commonplace. Most poignantly of all- how to love when you've never been shown how.

Stunning...This book will make your jaw drop, then clench in anger. Helen Brown Telegraph

"Life as a film extra in Beijing might seem hard, but Fenfang - the spirited heroine of Xiaolu Guo's new novel - 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 Pioneer's movie theatre, falls in love with unsuitable men and keeps her kitchen cupboard stocked with UFO instant noodles. As Fenfang might say, Heavenly Bastard in the Sky, isn't it about time I got my lucky break?"--back cover

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.

After a 1800-mile journey from her village to Beijing, Fenfang discovers she is the 6787th applicant for a film role. This marks the beginning of her long search for happiness!

Dílo současné americké spisovatelky čínského původu spojuje autorčiny vzpomínky a portréty členů rodiny, tradiční čínské mýty, legendy a obrazy ze života čínských přistěhovalců v Americe v neobyčejně originální a působivý celek, který je dnes považován za jeden z předních textů "etnické" větve americké literatury.

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;

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 an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain... Xiaolu Guo was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists