a golden age
A01=Xiaolu Guo
Author_Xiaolu Guo
beijing
Category=FBA
coming of age
contemporary
contemporary fiction
culture
dictionary chinese english
english dictionary
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gender
generation x
literary fiction
once upon a time
stone age
the china room
the golden man
the shanghai strain
time after time
womans prize fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9780099512936
- Weight: 149g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2009
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 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?
Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize.
Xiaolu Guo was born in China. She published six books before moving to Britain in 2002. Her books include: Village of Stone, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and I Am China. Her recent memoir, Once Upon a Time in the East, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018. It was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Her most recent novel A Lover's Discourse was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a visiting professor at the Free University in Berlin.
