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Once upon a time in the East : a story of growing up / Xiaolu Guo.
Van Pelt Library PR9450.9.G86 Z46 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guo, Xiaolu, 1973- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Guo, Xiaolu, 1973---Childhood and youth.
- Guo, Xiaolu.
- Guo, Xiaolu, 1973-.
- Authors, Chinese--21st century--Biography.
- Authors, Chinese.
- Authors, English--21st century--Biography.
- Authors, English.
- Women--China--Biography.
- Women.
- China.
- China--Social life and customs--1976-2002.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Chatto & Windus, 2017.
- Summary:
- 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. 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.
- Notes:
- "As read on BBC Radio 4"--Front book cover.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781784740672
- 1784740675
- 9781784740689
- 1784740683
- OCLC:
- 967376866
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