Nine Continents
Download and Read Nine Continents full books in PDF, ePUB, and Kindle. Read online free Nine Continents ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Nine Continents
Author | : Xiaolu Guo |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2017-10-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0802189326 |
Download Nine Continents Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The acclaimed novelist’s award-winning memoir of growing up in a remote Chinese fishing village is “a rich and insightful coming-of-age story” (Kirkus). The acclaimed author of A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers and I Am China, Xiaolu Guo grew up an unwanted child in a poor fishing village on the East China Sea. But a Taoist monk made a startling prediction to her grandmother: that Guo would prove herself to be a peasant warrior and grow up to travel the nine continents. In Nine Continents, Guo tells the story of a curious mind coming of age in an inhospitable country, and her determination to seek a life beyond the limits of its borders. From her family’s village to a rapidly changing Beijing, to a life beyond China, Nine Continents presents a fascinating portrait of how the Cultural Revolution shaped families, and how the country’s economic ambitions have given rise to great change. This “moving and often exhilarating” memoir confirms Xiaolu Guo as one of world literature’s most urgent voices (Financial Times, UK).
Nine Continents Related Books
Pages: 365
Pages: 336
Pages: 469
Pages: 368
Pages: 552