Once Upon a Time in the East

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When Xiaolu Guo 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 her with her illiterate grandparents in a fishing village on the East China Sea. Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her. <b>Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2017.</b>

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