Title: 20 Fragments of Ravenous Youth Author: Xiaolu Guo Publisher: Vintage Digital Publication Date: Jan 1st 2001 Page Number: 208 pages Blurb: Life as a film extra in Beijing might seem hard, but Fenfang won't be defeated. She has travelled 1800 miles to seek her fortune in the city, and has no...
Language and love collide in this inventive novel of a young Chinese woman's journey to the West and her attempts to understand the language, and the man, she adores.Zhuang – or “Z,” to tongue-tied foreigners – has come to London to study English, but finds herself adrift, trapped in a cycle of cult...
Life as a film extra in Beijing might seem hard, but Fenfang won't be defeated. She has travelled 1800 miles to seek her fortune in the city, and has no desire to return to the never-ending sweet potato fields back home. Determined to live a modern life, Fenfang works as a cleaner in the Young Pione...
Po tytule i opisie spodziewałam się czegoś, co mogłoby mną wstrząsnąć. Czatowałam na tę książkę, dlatego, gdy tylko zobaczyłam ją w Biedronce, od razu ją kupiłam.Po przeczytaniu przedostatniego opowiadania byłam nieco rozczarowana, bo wydawało mi się, że książka jest za krótka, żeby poczuć te emocje...
I completely identified with this book. It brilliantly captures the feeling of immersing yourself in a foreign language and culture. What happens when you begin to fluently speak, live and love in another language is fascinating. The author manages to convey so very well, how the beliefs impregna...
I do have some trouble with Chinese writers on tyranny, since their conclusions seem obvious to me. I have to keep reminding myself that the context in which they're published is much more dangerous than that in which the translation appears. Here, a peasant may or may not have seen a UFO, which she...
This book was recommended to me from a good friend, and it turns out it is a really good book. I'm terrible at actually liking books I get recommended, so that was nice.The book is about a Chinese girl who moves to England to learn English, and it's written in some sort of diary form. What is so gen...
Aptly titled, the book consists of words the narrator tries to understand. But the real words (those not mentioned) whose meanings the narrator tries to make sense of - are love, home, and solitude. It's a treatise on love and language, and the search for home through travel and understanding the me...
Important: Our sites use cookies.
We use the information stored using cookies and similar technologies for advertising and statistics purposes.
Stored data allow us to tailor the websites to individual user's interests.
Cookies may be also used by third parties cooperating with BookLikes, like advertisers, research companies and providers of multimedia applications.
You can choose how cookies are handled by your device via your browser settings.
If you choose not to receive cookies at any time, BookLikes will not function properly and certain services will not be provided.
For more information, please go to our Privacy Policy.
Log in with Facebook 
