Once upon a time in the East : a story of growing up / Xiaolu Guo.
| Author/creator | Guo, Xiaolu, 1973- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | London : Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Vintage, 2017. |
| Description | 317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Abstract | 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. 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. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781473524309 |
| ISBN | 9781784740672 hardback |
| ISBN | 1784740675 hardback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PR9450.9 .G86 Z46 2017 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |