Once Upon A Time in the East av Xiaolu Guo

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<p><b>*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award*</b><br><b>*Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award*</b><br><b>*Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize*</b><br><b>*Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018*<br>*A <i>Sunday Times </i>Book of the Year<i>*</i></b><br><br>Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her. <br><br>When she is born in 1973, 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. <br><br><i>Once Upon a Time in the East</i> takes Xiaolu from a run-down shack to film school in a rapidly changing Beijing, navigating the everyday peculiarity of modern China: censorship, underground art, Western boyfriends. In 2002 she leaves Beijing on a scholarship to study in Britain. Now, after a decade in Europe, her tale of East to West reso