I Am China: A Novel - Rilegato

Guo, Xiaolu

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ISBN 10: 0385538715 ISBN 13: 9780385538718

Casa editrice: Nan a Talese, 2014

Riassunto

Rock 'n' roll, revolution, and romance are seductively woven together in this intense and moving novel from the author ofTwenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth

In her flat in north London, Iona Kirkpatrick sets to work on a new project translating a collection of letters and diaries by a Chinese musician. With each letter and journal entry, Iona becomes more and more intrigued with the unfolding story of two lovers: Jian, a punk rocker who believes there is no art without political commitment, and Mu, the young woman he loves as fiercely as his ideals.

Iona cannot possibly know that Jian is mere miles away in Dover, awaiting the uncertain fate of a political exile. Mu is still in Beijing, writing letters to London and desperately trying to track Jian down. As Iona charts the course of their twenty-year relationship, from its early beginnings at Beijing University to Jian’s defiant march in the Jasmine Revolution, her own empty life takes on an urgent purpose: to bring Jian and Mu together again before it’s too late.

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Longslisted for the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction!

"Beautifully rendered."—The New York Times Book Review

"A harrowing glimpse into post-Tiananmen repression in China...a mix of dissident rhetoric and heartbreak that turns on one couple's story." —Kirkus Reviews

"Guo’s bittersweet tale of love and politics with a soupçon of obsession plays out against the contrast between East and West...This is truly a finely crafted novel whose characters will remain in memory long after reading the final page." —Booklist

"I Am China feels like promise fulfilled: a book so piercingly urgent and relevant it is as if Guo has not so much published it as pressed it into your hand the very moment after writing the final sentence...An extraordinary and important book." —The Independent

"[Guo’s] dark, witty fiction examines the interface between east and west, often through acutely observed tales of personal relationships...This novel has bold, refreshing things to say about art and politics." —Financial Times

"With I Am China, Xiaolu Guo has completed her metamorphosis from an exile writing about displacement in a second language to a writer who seems to occupy two worlds at once, with a discerning eye cast on each and the myriad intersections between them."—Toronto Star

"[A] complex and fascinating political narrative. The lives of Jian and Mu, haunted by the turbulent history of Chinese politics (in particular, the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989), read like a eulogy for a lost vision of China." —The Observer

"[Guo] vividly captures the mixed emotions of the youths of 1980s about their home country and the impact on their lives decades after."—The Asian Review of Books

L'autore:

XIAOLU GUO published six books in China before moving to London in 2002. The English translation ofVillage of Stone was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her first novel written in English,A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, andTwenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth, published in 2008, was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. She is also a successful filmmaker of feature films, includingShe, A Chinese and UFO in Her Eyes, and documentaries; her work has premiered all over the world. She was named as one ofGranta’s Best Young British Novelists in 2013.

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• Editore: Nan a Talese
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0385538715
• ISBN 13: 9780385538718
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 373