by Xiaolu Guo · Goldmann Wilhelm · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442463305
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«Stadt der Steine» is the novel by Xiaolu Guo, published by Goldmann Wilhelm in paperback (253 pages, in German).
The novel portrays the childhood of a girl in a small fishing community on the Chinese coast, marked by the harshness of the sea, silence, solitude, and the trauma of sexual abuse. In parallel, it shows the young woman now living in the big city, reflecting on the poverty and cruelty that her urban generation has wanted to leave behind.
The original Chinese title is «Wo xinzhong de shitou zhen»; originally published in 2003, it was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2005.
For readers interested in contemporary Chinese literature and stories that combine personal memory and social criticism.
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.
