Editions

Village Of Stone

  • Imprint: Vintage Digital

  • ISBN: 9781448130535

  • Length: 192  Pages

  • RRP: £8.99

Village Of Stone

Village of Stone brilliantly evokes the harshness of life on the typhoon-battered coast of China, where fishermen are often lost to violent seas and children regularly swept away. It is the beautiful, haunting story of one little girl's struggle to endure silence, solitude and the shame of sexual abuse, but it is also an incisive portrait of China's new urban youth, who have hidden behind their modern lifestyle all the poverty and cruelty of their past.

  • Imprint: Vintage Digital

  • ISBN: 9781448130535

  • Length: 192  Pages

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • "A refreshing departure from much of the recent Chinese fiction to reach these shores. The language has the pared-down simplicity of a fable; the effect is a bit like that of a Haruki Murakami novel"

    Times Literary Supplement

  • "Open this book and you will see a Chinese girl stepping towards you out of China's past and into its present, with all her dreams and striving"

    Xinran

  • "Exquisitely written and intricately contructed"

    Independent

  • "Reading it is rather like finding yourself in a dream: "once upon a time..." People are going to like this book very much... What could have been a misery of a story has the mysterious charm of a fairy tale or a legend"

    Doris Lessing

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About the Author

Xiaolu Guo

Xiaolu Guo was born in south China. She studied film at the Beijing Film Academy and published six books in China before she moved to London in 2002. Her books include Village of Stone which was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth which was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and I Am China which was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. In 2013 she was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. Xiaolu has also directed several award-winning films including She, A Chinese and a documentary about London, Late at Night. She lives in London.

Xiaolu Guo

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Chatto & Windus authors Xiaolu Guo and Kayo Chingonyi shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize

21 February 2018

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