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Radical

Autor Xiaolu Guo
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 sep 2024
"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"--
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780802163592
ISBN-10: 0802163599
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 138 x 203 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Grove Atlantic

Notă biografică

Xiaolu Guo is the author of Village of Stone, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth, I Am China, A Lover's Discourse, and Nine Continents. She has been named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. Guo is also an award-winning director; her films include She, a Chinese and UFO in Her Eyes, and she has been featured in retrospectives around the world. She lives in London and Berlin.