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  • A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Loversby Xiaolu Guo

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.95

    Language and love collide in this inventive novel of a young Chinese woman's journey to the West and her attempts to understand the language, and the man, she adores.Zhuang ? or ?Z,? to tongue-tied foreigners ? has come to London to study English, but finds herself adrift, trapped in a cycle of cultural gaffes and grammatical mishaps. Then she meets... more...

  • Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youthby Xiaolu Guo

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 14.00

    The latest novel from Orange Prize finalist Xiaolu Guo is the enchantingly comic story of a young Chinese woman's life as a film extra in hyper-modern, tumultuous Beijing.Though twenty-one-year-old Fenfang Wang has traveled 1,800 miles to seek her fortune in urban Beijing, she is ill-prepared for what greets her: a Communist regime that has outworn... more...

  • A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Loversby Xiaolu Guo

    Random House Group Ltd 2010; US$ 12.00

    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...... more...

  • 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youthby Xiaolu Guo

    Random House Group Ltd 2008; US$ 10.67

    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 Pioneer's movie theatre, falls in love with unsuitable... more...

  • Lovers in the Age of Indifferenceby Xiaolu Guo

    Random House 2010; US$ 17.34

    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; 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. In this engagingly maverick... more...

  • UFO in Her Eyesby Xiaolu Guo

    Random House Group Ltd 2012; US$ 10.67

    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 shadow of the alien craft. It's not... more...

  • Village Of Stoneby Xiaolu Guo

    Random House Group Ltd 2012; US$ 10.67

    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 abuse, but it is also an incisive portrait of China's... more...

  • Because I am a Girlby Tim Butcher; Xiaolu Guo; Joanne Harris; Kathy Lette; Deborah Moggach; Marie Phillips; Irvine Welsh

    Random House 2010; US$ 12.00

    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 a girl I am more likely to marry and start a family before I reach my twenties. Seven authors have visited seven different countries... more...

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