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Village of Stone
Xiaolu Guo
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Description for Village of Stone
Paperback. Coral and her frisbee-obsessed boyfriend, Red live on the ground floor of a cramped tower block in the megalopolis that is Beijing. The very epitome of disaffected, unfulfilled youth, their already fragile existence is shattered by the arrival of a mysterious fishy package. This novel is about memory, loss and the search for redemption. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 142.
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. It is the beautiful, haunting story of one little girl's struggle to endure silence, solitude and the shame of sexual abuse, but it is also an incisive portrait of China's new urban youth, who have hidden behind their modern lifestyle all the poverty and cruelty of their past.
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. It is the beautiful, haunting story of one little girl's struggle to endure silence, solitude and the shame of sexual abuse, but it is also an incisive portrait of China's new urban youth, who have hidden behind their modern lifestyle all the poverty and cruelty of their past.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099459071
SKU
V9780099459071
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Xiaolu Guo
Xiaolu Guo was born in China. She published six books before moving to Britain in 2002. Her books include: Village of Stone, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and I Am China. Her recent memoir, Once Upon a Time in the East, won the National Book Critics Circle ... Read more
Reviews for Village of Stone
A refreshing departure from much of the recent Chinese fiction to reach these shores. The language has the pared-down simplicity of a fable; the effect is a bit like that of a Haruki Murakami novel
Times Literary Supplement
Open this book and you will see a Chinese girl stepping towards you out of China's past and into its ... Read more
Times Literary Supplement
Open this book and you will see a Chinese girl stepping towards you out of China's past and into its ... Read more