I Am China
by Xiaolu Guo
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Pub Date 5 Jun 2014 | Archive Date 30 Jun 2014
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Vintage Digital
Description
Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Fiction Prize
In 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 travelling further and further away from each other. Iona, intoxicated by their romance, sets out to bring them back together, but time is running out.
Xiaolu Guo was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists
A Note From the Publisher
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UK edition – available to readers worldwide excluding USA and Canada.
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Marketing Plan
Selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2013
Flourishing film career: Xiaolu is also an award-winning film director. Her most recent feature film, UFO in Her Eyes
(based on her own book of the same name) was highly acclaimed, and
she's been invited to take her new documentary to the Venice Film
Festival
Very international outlook: I Am China
is set in Beijing, London, America, Switzerland, Paris; Xiaolu has
strong connections all over the world (she's done fellowships in Berlin
and Paris most recently, premieres her films in America and sets her
films and books back in China); I Am China is being published in five territories.
A love story of modern times: AS Byatt's Possession
set in modern China and Europe - a translator in London uncovers a
moving love story between a dissident musician and his poet lover in
their letters and diary entries.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781448161843 |
| PRICE | £8.99 (GBP) |
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