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Set against the backdrop of the 1843 Kent coast, the story follows Ishmaelle, who, after losing her family, disguises herself as a cabin boy to escape her desolate life and seek adventure at sea. As she joins Captain Seneca's whaling ship, the Nimrod, during the tumultuous period of the Civil War, she navigates the brutal world of whaling alongside a diverse crew. This reimagining of Moby Dick from a female perspective explores themes of identity, nature, and the mysterious connection between Ishmaelle and the legendary whale.

'One of the most valuable writers in the world' Deborah LevyEmbodiment, assimilation, integration – these are big words, but they seem to name a stage or a state I ought to be able to achieve in my brief life.In winter 2021, Xiaolu Guo moved into a tiny dilapidated flat on the Hastings seafront, a room of her own where she could spend time writing away from her domestic duties as a mother and wife in London. As Russia invaded Ukraine, she immersed herself in the English landscape and its past, especially the violence between Normans and Saxons.My Battle of Hastings is a chronicle of Xiaolu’s life in Hastings and a portrait of a dislocated artist seeking to connect with her local environment in the hope of finding a deeper connection to her adoptive nation. Filled with profound, beautiful and wry reflections on war, history, migration and belonging, Xiaolu’s journey into the past completes the triptych of memoirs that began with Once Upon a Time in the East, charting her childhood in China, then continued with A Life of My Own in search of a freedom beyond her home.My Battle of Hastings is above all an exploration of how an immigrant, an outsider and a woman can embrace local and national history.

"From NBCC-winning author of Nine Continents Xiaolu Guo, Radical is a playful, provocative memoir of a trip to New York that upended her sense of self as a woman, partner, mother, and artist. In the autumn of 2019, Xiaolu Guo traveled to New York to take up a visiting professorship for a year, leaving her child and partner behind in London. The encounter with American culture and people threatened her sense of identity and threw her into a crisis-of meaning, desire, obligation, and selfhood. This is a book about separation-by continents, by language, and from people. It's about being an outsider and the desperate longing to connect. At once a memoir, a lexicon, and an ardent love letter, Radical is an expression of her fascination with Western culture and her nostalgia for Eastern landscapes, and an attempt to describe the space in between"--

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.

"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

'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 meets a landscape architect and the two begin to build their future together.Playing with language and the cultural differences that our narrator encounters as she settles into her new life, the lovers must navigate their differences and their romance, whether on their unmoored houseboat or in a cramped apartment in east London. Suffused with a wonderful sense of humour, this intimate novel asks what it means to make a home and a family in a new land.

The memoir chronicles Xiaolu Guo's journey from her humble beginnings in a fishing village in rural China to becoming a bold writer and filmmaker in the West. It explores her experiences, cultural transitions, and the challenges she faced along the way, highlighting her resilience and creativity as she navigates two distinct worlds.

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.

Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. This book takes Xiaolu from a run-down shack to film school in a rapidly changing Beijing. In 2002 she leaves Beijing on a scholarship to study in Britain. This memoir is a handbook of life lessons.

East goes West – Ein Leben zwischen zwei Welten. Es ist kein einfacher Start ins Leben: Gleich nach der Geburt geben die Eltern, glühende Anhänger Maos, ihre Tochter in die Obhut eines kinderlosen Bauernpaares in den Bergen. Zwei Jahre später bringen diese die halbverhungerte Kleine zu ihren des Lesens und Schreibens unkundigen Großeltern. Ein Jahr später stirbt der Große Vorsitzende, und in China beginnt ein dramatischer gesellschaftlicher Wandel. In ihrem neuen Buch erzählt die chinesische Autorin und Filmemacherin Xiaolu Guo von dem langen Weg, der sie aus einem ärmlichen Fischernest am Ostchinesischen Meer an die Filmhochschule im sich rasant verändernden Peking der 90er Jahre und schließlich 2002 nach London führt. 15 Jahre später beschreibt sie ihre Reise von Ost nach West mit einer Klarsicht, die nur jemand besitzt, der angekommen ist und sich zugleich fremd fühlt.