Two lovers, separated by oceans and an oppressive political regime, desperate to find their way back to each other.
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.
Heart-wrenching… An extraordinary and important book
*Independent*
Beautifully written… Genuinely affecting… Exceptional
*Scotland on Sunday*
An ambitious, thought-provoking and engaging narrative
*Evening Standard*
Beautifully rendered
*New York Times*
Beautifully done
*Red*
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