by Xiaolu Guo · Random House UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099512936
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«20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth» is the contemporary fiction novel by Xiaolu Guo, published by Random House UK in paperback (208 pages, in English).
Fenfang leaves her village and the sweet potato fields to seek a modern life in Beijing. She works as a film extra and cleaner, falls in love with unsuitable men, and fantasises about making it in the audiovisual industry. A look at ambition, precarity and urban youth in today's China.
The cover mentions her previous work «A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers»; the novel was originally written in English.
Recommended for readers of contemporary fiction interested in coming-of-age stories and urban life in today's China.
Xiaolu Guo is a Chinese-born British author, filmmaker and academic. Her writing and films explore migration, alienation, memory, personal journeys, feminism, translation and transnational identities.
