A Lover's Discourse von Guo, Xiaolu

From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, Xiaolu Guo's memoir documents her trajectory from a small fishing village in rural China to life in the West as a fearless writer and filmmaker. von Guo, Xiaolu

The world can seem strange and lonely when you step away from your family and everything you have tried to call your own. Yet beauty may also appear. In the autumn of 2019 Xiaolu travelled to New York to take up her position as a...

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...

A charming and clever account of one woman¿s exploration of love, language and identity.Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city,...

Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the language a muddle of personal pronouns and...

A story of desire, love and language - told through fragments of conversations between two lovers - that explores romantic loveA Chinese woman comes to London to start a new life - away from her dead parents, away from her old world. She...

A Chinese woman comes to London to start a new life, embarking on a relationship with an Australian-British-German landscape architect and navigating the oddities of language and cultural difference in the aftermath of the Brexit vote....

'A fragmentary meditation on the nature of love' GuardianA Chinese woman comes to post-Brexit London to start over - just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners,...

'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic'This is the story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more independent than her provincial roots, gets a job as a film extra in Beijing. But living a modern life is not as...