Once Upon A Time in the East

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<p><b>*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award*</b> <b>*Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award*</b> <b>*Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize*</b> <b>*Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018*</b> <b>*A<i>Sunday Times</i>Book of the Year<i>*</i></b></p><p>Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her.</p><p>When she is born in 1973, 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.</p><p><i>Once Upon a Time in the East</i>takes Xiaolu from a run-down shack to film school in a rapidly changing Beijing, navigating the everyday peculiarity of modern China: censorship, underground art, Western boyfriends. In 2002 she leaves Beijing on a scholarship to study in Britain. Now, after a decade in Europe, her tale of East to West resonates with the insight that can only come from someone who is both an outsider and at home.</p><p>'This generation's<i>Wild Swans</i>'<i>Daily Telegraph</i></p>

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<b>Xiaolu Guo</b>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<i>Village of Stone</i>which was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize,<i>A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers</i>which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction,<i>20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth</i>which was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and<i>I Am China</i>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<i>She, A Chinese</i>and a documentary about London,<i>Late at Night</i>. She lives in London and Berlin.

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