| ISBN |
9781784740672 (hbk.) |
| 1784740675 (hbk.) |
| Name |
Guo, Xiaolu, 1973- author. |
| Title |
Once upon a time in the East : a story of growing up / Xiaolu Guo. |
| Published |
London Chatto & Windus, 2017. |
| Description |
317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Notes |
"As read on BBC Radio 4"--Front book cover. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subjects |
Guo, Xiaolu, -- 1973- Childhood and youth |
| Authors, Chinese -- 21st century -- Biography |
| Authors, English -- 21st century -- Biography |
| Women -- China -- Biography |
| China -- Social life and customs -- 1976-2002 |
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