The Art of Breaking Up
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Xiaolu Guo in her memoir, Once Upon a Time in the East, writes an eye-opening tale to China's history framed in the gripping anecdotes of personal relationships and struggles. She puts faces and names to the people whose voices and stories were silenced, whether through illiteracy or censorship.
Jan 26, 2017 · Like a Wild Swans for a new generation, 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.
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- Xiaolu Guo
Aug 27, 2008 · An embattled ghost town, two warring tribes between which Django ( Hideaki Ito — here “the gunman”) violently insinuates himself, a tragic hooker with a heart of gold (from whom, rather...
- Leo Goldsmith
Once Upon a Time in the East is honest and lucid. I cannot say what English-speakers with no experience of East Asia will make of the book, but it should resonate bell-like with anyone on China’s English-speaking littoral who is of an age to remember the period the book covers.
Once Upon a Time in the East. In the 90s Bulgaria joined the Eastern Bloc's race for freedom. But as thousands flooded the streets calling for democracy, the shadows were giving birth to criminal enterprise which quickly took over the new 'democratic' society.
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- Demir Yanev
- 2011-04
A cop and his new partner reluctantly accept a truce with local gangs in 1990s Košice — until a violent criminal crosses an unspoken line. Watch trailers & learn more.
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Jan 26, 2017 · by Xiaolu Guo (Author) 4.1 709 ratings. See all formats and editions. The acclaimed novelist's award-winning memoir of growing up in a remote Chinese fishing village is "a rich and insightful coming-of-age story" (Kirkus).
- Xiaolu Guo
