Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China by Xiaolu Guo [in Christian Science Monitor]
06 Oct, by in Adult Readers, British Asian, Chinese, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost
'Nine Continents' is Chinese author Xiaolu Guo’s resonant memoir about leaving her past Audiences familiar with Chinese-born, British-transplanted Xiaolu Guo’s prolific output know she’s alchemized elements of her own life to produce her fiction and films. Her remote village upbringing and Beijing education inspired Twenty Fragments...
Although published over a decade ago in Guo's native China – and since reworked in English by the author – Guo's story set in a new China rushing toward modernization will surely have a long 21st-century...
Alas, summer's over, but that doesn't mean the fun reads have to be thrown aside for more serious fare. If anything, some depth mixed with light fun might make for the ideal transitional book.
A Concise Chinese-English...