guo xiaolu 20 fragments of a ravenous youth
Guo Xiaolu 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic' This is the story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more independent than her provincial roots, gets a job as a film extra in Beijing. But living a modern life is not as easy as it looks in this tumultuous, messy city. Grappling with the narrow world of cinema, an outworn Communist regime, and the city's far-from-progressive attitudes to women, charismatic Fenfang finds her true freedom in the one place she never expected. 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth is a sparkling and wry coming-of-age story about the changing identity of women in contemporary China. Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.
2384 Руб.
Guo Xiaolu Once Upon A Time in the East
Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her. 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. Once Upon a Time in the East 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 resonates with the insight that can only come from someone who is both an outsider and at home.
3721 Руб.
Guo Xiaolu A Lover's Discourse
A Chinese woman comes to post-Brexit London to start over - just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape architect and the two begin to build their future together. Playing with language and the cultural differences that our narrator encounters as she settles into her new life, the lovers must navigate their differences and their romance, whether on their unmoored houseboat or in a cramped apartment in east London. Suffused with a wonderful sense of humour, this intimate novel asks what it means to make a home and a family in a new land.
2068 Руб.
Guo Xiaolu A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself - Westerners cannot pronounce her name) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain... Xiaolu Guo was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists
3721 Руб.
Guo Xiaolu Language
Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the language a muddle of personal pronouns and moody verbs. But with increasing fluency in English surviving turns to living. And they say that the best way to learn a language is to fall in love with a native speaker… Selected from the book A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
1025 Руб.
Guo X. Language
Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the language a muddle of personal pronouns and moody verbs. But with increasing fluency in English surviving turns to living. And they say that the best way to learn a language is to fall in love with a native speaker... Selected from the book A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.
571 Руб.
Guo X. Language
Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the language a muddle of personal pronouns and moody verbs. But with increasing fluency in English surviving turns to living. And they say that the best way to learn a language is to fall in love with a native speaker... Selected from the book A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.
571 Руб.
Kingstone M. The Woman Warrior
With an introduction by Xiaolu Guo A classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America. When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talking-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Throughout her childhood, Maxine Hong Kingston listened to her mothers mesmerizing tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upwards. Growing up in a changing America, surrounded by Chinese myth and memory, this is her story of two cultures and one trenchant, lyrical journey into womanhood. Complex and beautiful, angry and adoring, Maxine Hong Kingstons The Woman Warrior is a seminal piece of writing about emigration and identity. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976 and is widely hailed as a feminist classic.
1244 Руб.
Kingstone M. The Woman Warrior
With an introduction by Xiaolu Guo A classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America. When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talking-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Throughout her childhood, Maxine Hong Kingston listened to her mothers mesmerizing tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upwards. Growing up in a changing America, surrounded by Chinese myth and memory, this is her story of two cultures and one trenchant, lyrical journey into womanhood. Complex and beautiful, angry and adoring, Maxine Hong Kingstons The Woman Warrior is a seminal piece of writing about emigration and identity. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976 and is widely hailed as a feminist classic.
1244 Руб.
Guo Xiaolu A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
A charming and clever account of one woman’s exploration of love, language and identity. Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain... Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind
2179 Руб.
Pascal Blaise Pensees
Fragments written in preparation of a defence of Christianity, unfinished at Pascal's death in 1669 and published posthumously, Pensees has long been regarded as a literary masterpiece as well as a great work of philosophy and theology.
1194 Руб.
AUDIO CD Buddy Guy - Bring 'Em In / Skin Deep. 2 CD
Треклист: 1-1. Enemy Within 1-2. Burning Angel 1-3. Heart Of Darkness 1-4. Ravenous 1-5. Savage Messiah 1-6. Dead Bury Their Dead 1-7. Web Of Lies 1-8. The First Deadly Sin 1-9. Behind The Smile 1-10. Snow Bound 1-11. Shadows And Dust 1-12. Lament Of A Mortal Soul Video1. Ravenous Rare & Unreleased 2-1. Starbreaker 2-2. Aces High 2-3. Scream Of Anger 2-4. Diva Satanica 2-5. Fields Of Desolation '99 2-6. Damnation's Way 2-7. Hydra Video2. The Immortal
2949 Руб.
Herbert James Fluke
Fluke is the moving story of a dog with the memories of a human, with the signature twisting plot Master of Horror James Herbert is famed for. A dog wanders the streets, compelled by a ravenous hunger. Hunting a prey he cannot not define, driven by a primal instinct he cannot ignore. He is more than he thinks, more than he can remember and in the depths of his brain the memory of what he once was is clawing for release . . .
2261 Руб.
Dubrovsky Nika What the Dutch Like. A drawing book about Dutch
This is a drawing book, a colouring book and a notebook all at once. It shows fragments of Dutch paintings from the Hermitage Museum collection. Draw in it! Write in it! Join the vast world that the Dutch discovered for art lovers of all ages.
578 Руб.
Orb/Gilmour David Виниловая пластинка Orb/Gilmour David Metallic Spheres In Colour
Состояние носителя: S. Состояние конверта: S. Metallic Spheres In Colour. Виниловая пластинка . A Seamless Solar Spheres Of Affection Mix Written-By – Alex Paterson, David Gilmour, Michael Rendall, Youth 20:07 B Seamlessly Martian Spheres Of Reflection Mix Written-By – Alex Paterson, David Gilmour, Marcia Mello, Michael Rendall, Youth 19:44 Тип носителя: Виниловая пластинка
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Cusk Rachel The Temporary
Ralph Loman works in an unsatisfying job, for a free London newspaper, when Francine Snaith, a temporary secretary for a corporate finance firm, unexpectedly crosses his path at a party. Her beauty ignites a blaze of excitement in his troubled heart. But Francine is ravenous for attention, driven by a thirst for conquest, and when Ralph tries politely to extricate himself, he finds he is bound by chains of consequence from which it seems there is no escape. The Temporary paints a merciless portrait of the cut and thrust of modern romance, work and life.
1822 Руб.