Books by Xiaolu Guo and Complete Book Reviews

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Xiaolu Guo, Author . Doubleday/Talese $23.95 (283p) ISBN 978-0-385-52029-4
A young woman from rural China learns how to comprehend “love” and “heartbreak” in English in this quirky, touching novel. Zhuang, or “Z” to tongue-tied foreigners, arrives in London at age 23 after being...
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Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
Xiaolu Guo, Author . Doubleday/Talese $22.95 (167p) ISBN 978-0-385-52592-3
London-based novelist and documentary filmmaker Guo was a 2007 Orange Prize finalist for A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers . She has completely re-written, in English, this story of tough, sprightly heroine Fenfang Wang, first...
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A Lover’s Discourse
A Lover’s Discourse
Xiaolu Guo. Grove, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8021-4952-7
Guo’s poignant if uneven meditation on belonging, language, and the nature of love (after the NBCC Award-winning memoir Nine Continents) takes the form of a series of fragmentary scenes and ruminations addressed by a woman to her husband. The...
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