'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic'This is the story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more independent than her provincial roots, gets a job as a film extra in Beijing. But living a modern life is not as easy as... Zobraziť viac
Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born in... Zobraziť viac
Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) 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 ... Zobraziť viac
Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the language a muddle of personal pronouns and moody verbs... Zobraziť viac
A funny and charming new novel from Xiaolu Guo about love, language, displacement and finding our place in the world... Zobraziť viac
