Ebook {Epub PDF} I Am China by Xiaolu Guo

 · “Steeped in music, revolution, exile and romance, this is a story from the front lines of contemporary China.” —Houston Chronicle “With I Am China, Xiaolu Guo has completed her metamorphosis from an exile writing about displacement in a second language to a writer who seems to occupy two worlds at once, with a discerning eye cast on each and the myriad intersections between Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.  · I Am China, by Xiaolu Guo, is an intriguing love story saturated with political angst. The prelude begins with Kublai Jian’s letter to his girlfriend Deng Mu, written in , in which he recounts his walk to Tiananmen Square the night after the massacre in June “If you looked closely you could see the blood had soaked into the gaps between the stones.”/5. “Steeped in music, revolution, exile and romance, this is a story from the front lines of contemporary China.” —Houston Chronicle “With I Am China, Xiaolu Guo has completed her metamorphosis from an exile writing about displacement in a second language to a writer who seems to occupy two worlds at once, with a discerning eye cast on each and the myriad intersections between them.”/5(71).

I Am China is an interesting puzzle of a book. The author, Xiaolu Guo, is a writer and film maker (she graduated from the Beijing Film Academy), which shows in the structuring of this novel that jumps back and forth in time, moving from perspective to perspective in a way that is genuinely cinematic. I Am China is an ambitious book about an important topic. But it never really came together for me. Xiaolu Guo has so many ideas that they never really coalesce. She wants to talk about identity, and politics, and revolution, and language, and isolation, and love, and sex, and human connection. In the end, I felt she was only partly successful. I Am China By: Xiaolu Guo Narrated by: Karen Byrson,Andrew Leung,Sarah Lam.

I Am China; By: Xiaolu Guo; Narrated by: Karen Byrson, Andrew Leung, Sarah Lam; Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins Unabridged Audiobook Categories: Romance. “Steeped in music, revolution, exile and romance, this is a story from the front lines of contemporary China.” —Houston Chronicle “With I Am China, Xiaolu Guo has completed her metamorphosis from an exile writing about displacement in a second language to a writer who seems to occupy two worlds at once, with a discerning eye cast on each and the myriad intersections between them.”. Book Review: 'I Am China,' By Xiaolu Guo | Xiaolu Guo's new novel follows the relationship of two artists, from post-Tiananmen China through years and continents as they wrestle with the.