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Xiaolu Guo

Biography

Xiaolu Guo

Xiaolu Guo is the author of A LOVER'S DISCOURSE, VILLAGE OF STONE, A CONCISE CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY FOR LOVERS, TWENTY FRAGMENTS OF A RAVENOUS YOUTH and I AM CHINA. She has been named one of Granta‘s Best of Young British Novelists. Guo has also directed several award-winning films, including She, A Chinese and a documentary about London, Late at Night. She lives in London and Berlin.

Xiaolu Guo

Books by Xiaolu Guo

by Xiaolu Guo - Fiction, Women's Fiction

A Chinese woman moves from Beijing to London for a doctoral program --- and to begin a new life --- 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 a life together. A LOVER’S DISCOURSE is an exploration of romantic love told through fragments of conversations between the two lovers. Playing with language and the cultural differences that her narrator encounters as she settles into life in post-Brexit vote Britain, the lovers must navigate their differences and their romance, whether on their unmoored houseboat or in a cramped and stifling apartment in east London.