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I Am China

Xiaolu Guo

From Shelf: The 2015 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist

Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Fiction PrizeIn a flat above a noisy north London market, translator Iona Kirkpatrick starts work on a Chinese letter.

Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Fiction PrizeIn a flat above a noisy north London market, translator Iona Kirkpatrick starts work on a Chinese letter. Two lovers, Mu and Jian, have been driven apart by forces beyond their control.As Iona unravels the story of the lovers, Jian and Mu seem to be travelling further and further away from each other. Iona, intoxicated by their romance, sets out to bring them back together, but time is running out.Xiaolu Guo was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
384
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
ISBN:
9780099583738
Published Date:
6/8/2015
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm x 23mm
Weight:
266g
Category:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

RRP: £9.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780099583738


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