Imprint: Chatto & Windus
Published: 07/01/2010
ISBN: 9780701184834
Length: 224 Pages
Dimensions: 216mm x 17mm x 135mm
Weight: 244g
RRP: £12.99
The lovers in the age of indifference are tough romantics from every corner of the planet: a marriage splinters during a game of mah jong; a depressed fiancée is lifted by a mid-air encounter with a Hollywood legend; a mountain keeper watches over a lonely temple but is perturbed when, finally, a visitor dares to arrive.
In this engagingly maverick collection of stories, writer and filmmaker Guo zooms into tender and surreal moments in the lives of lost souls and lovers, adrift between West and East. Her personal, provocative and charming fables capture the sense of alienation thrown up by life in the modern world, and we join her characters in their search for human contact - and love - in rapidly-changing landscapes all around the globe.
Imprint: Chatto & Windus
Published: 07/01/2010
ISBN: 9780701184834
Length: 224 Pages
Dimensions: 216mm x 17mm x 135mm
Weight: 244g
RRP: £12.99
Witty and original...one of China's most successful literary exports
Funny and melancholy, scintillatingly observed
Original, humorous and wise
Xiaolu Guo is an instinctive witness; her atmospheric, unusually physical narratives are alive