Xiaolu Guo Knihy

Príbeh mladej Číňanky, ktorá pricestuje do Londýna, aby si zlepšila angličtinu. Vníma západný svet okolo seba, trochu tápe, snaží sa ho porozumieť, pritom sa zaľúbi do Brita, ku ktorému sa čoskoro nasťahuje. Neporozumenie dvoch rozličných kultúr a dvoch pohľadov na svet, ktoré sotva preklenie hrdinkino usilovné štúdium angličtin. Text je písaný so zámernými "cudzineckými" chybami, výborná práca prekladateľa, ktorý "zlú angličtinu" preložil do "zlej slovenčiny".

Über die Rolle des Künstlers in einer von ideologischen Kämpfen zerrissenen Welt In einem Land, in dem die Freiheit ein rares Gut ist, sind die beiden Liebenden Mu und Jian Teil einer subversiven jungen Künstlerszene. Mit Musik und Literatur wollen sie gegen die politische Unterdrückung kämpfen und für das Recht ihrer Generation, frei zu leben. Bis sie die zerstörerische Kraft der chinesischen Staatsmacht zu spüren bekommen und plötzlich nicht nur ihr gemeinsames Leben auf dem Spiel steht. In einem beeindruckenden Roman voller Kraft, Wut und Hingabe schlägt die gefeierte chinesische Autorin Xiaolu Guo den Bogen vom China der Neuzeit bis nach Europa und erzählt eine Geschichte, die uns alle berührt.

Defiant, humorous and insightful, 'Not Quite Right For Us' pierces through the hierarchical mechanics of class, race, gender. A celebration of outsiderness and an ode to otherness, 'Not Quite Right For Us' is a singular collection of stories, essays and poems by a dynamic mix of established and surging voices alike, edited by Sharmilla Beezmohun.

Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost 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. It's a strange beginning. A Wild Swans for a new generation, Once Upon a Time in the East takes Xiaolu from a run-down shack to film school in a rapidly changing Beijing, navigating the everyday peculiarity of modern China- censorship, underground art, Western boyfriends. In 2002 she leaves Beijing on a scholarship to study in Britain. Now, after a decade in Europe, her tale of East to West resonates with the insight that can only come from someone who is both an outsider and at home. Xiaolu Guo's extraordinary memoir is a handbook of life lessons. How to be an artist when censorship kills creativity and the only job you can get is writing bad telenovela scripts. How to be a woman when female babies are regularly drowned at birth and sexual abuse is commonplace. Most poignantly of all- how to love when you've never been shown how.

Stunning...This book will make your jaw drop, then clench in anger. Helen Brown Telegraph

"Life as a film extra in Beijing might seem hard, but Fenfang - the spirited heroine of Xiaolu Guo's new novel - won't be defeated. She has travelled 1800 miles to seek her fortune in the city, and has no desire to return to the never-ending sweet potato fields back home. Determined to live a modern life, Fenfang works as a cleaner in the Young Pioneer's movie theatre, falls in love with unsuitable men and keeps her kitchen cupboard stocked with UFO instant noodles. As Fenfang might say, Heavenly Bastard in the Sky, isn't it about time I got my lucky break?"--back cover

Village of Stone brilliantly evokes the harshness of life on the typhoon- battered coast of China, where fishermen are often lost to violent seas and children regularly swept away.

After a 1800-mile journey from her village to Beijing, Fenfang discovers she is the 6787th applicant for a film role. This marks the beginning of her long search for happiness!

With an introduction by Xiaolu GuoA classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America.When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talking-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Throughout her childhood, Maxine Hong Kingston listened to her mother's mesmerizing tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upwards. Growing up in a changing America, surrounded by Chinese myth and memory, this is her story of two cultures and one trenchant, lyrical journey into womanhood. Complex and beautiful, angry and adoring, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior is a seminal piece of writing about emigration and identity. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976 and is widely hailed as a feminist classic.

The lovers in the age of indifference are tough romantics from every corner of the planet: a marriage splinters during a game of mah jong;