{"product_id":"9781784702946-once-upon-a-time-in-the-east","title":"Once Upon A Time in the East","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Story of Growing up\u003cbr\u003eXiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award*\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018*\u003cbr\u003e*A \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Year\u003ci\u003e*\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOnce Upon a Time in the East\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This generation's \u003ci\u003eWild Swans\u003c\/i\u003e' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56450822504822,"sku":"9781784702946","price":9.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32165333.jpg?v=1760454028","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781784702946-once-upon-a-time-in-the-east","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}