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Once Upon A Time in the East

A Story of Growing up

Guo, Xiaolu

Once Upon A Time in the East

Once Upon A Time in the East

A Story of Growing up

Once Upon A Time in the East

 

From the Orange-shortlisted and Granta Best Young British Novelist, comes a rich memoir of growing up in modern China. Offers an intimate history of this fascinating country over the last four decades, together with an insight into daily life during the 1970s and '80s, covering politics, poverty and censorship


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Beschrijving Once Upon A Time in the East

Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born 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.


ISBN
9781784702946
Pagina's
336
Verschenen
NUR
320
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Paperback / softback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Vintage Publishing

Literaire non-fictie