Once Upon a Time in the East - Xiaolu Guo
Once Upon a Time in the East - Xiaolu Guo *Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017* *Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2017**Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Sunday…
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Once Upon a Time in the East - Xiaolu Guo
*Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017* *Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2017**Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Sunday Times*Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. 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 of yam leaves, they leave Xiaolu with her illiterate grandparents in a fishing village on the East China Sea. They are strangers to her.
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. 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. 'This generation's Wild Swans' Daily Telegraph