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"All Guo's tales explore the experience of alienation in a modern, urban world: an age of indifference... a fascinating theme" --Psychologies
`Guo writes with a delectable tartness and dry wit that banishes sentimentality... thoroughly modern love stories tailored to our times'. --The Lady
`slick, sexy stories...Guo is good at showing the dehumanising consequences of modernity'
--Metro
'the bonds between people have become so fragile...Guo conveys this fragility...attentively and with dry humour' --TLS
'subtle, moving fables'
--Mslexia
'delightful collection of short stories' --The Times
'The stories' structures are always bang-on' -- Mslexia --Mslexia. February 2010
'Some [stories...] beautifully encapsulate the dislocation of emigration' -- FT --FT, February 2010
`Guo writes with a delectable tartness and dry wit that banishes sentimentality... thoroughly modern love stories tailored to our times'. --The Lady
`slick, sexy stories...Guo is good at showing the dehumanising consequences of modernity'
--Metro
'the bonds between people have become so fragile...Guo conveys this fragility...attentively and with dry humour' --TLS
'subtle, moving fables'
--Mslexia
'delightful collection of short stories' --The Times
'The stories' structures are always bang-on' -- Mslexia --Mslexia. February 2010
'Some [stories...] beautifully encapsulate the dislocation of emigration' -- FT --FT, February 2010
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Xiaolu Guo, best known for her enchanting yet sharp take on culture-shock, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, presents a new work of fiction exploring the themes of love and exile that she has so brilliantly made her own.
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They are a collection of brilliant works, each involving very different characters but all in some ways looking at love. Not always in the cosy way that we are used to. Guo looks at love through both rose tinted spectacles in some of her characters and the eyes and minds of hardened cynics in others. We have tales of holiday romance `Letters to a City of Illusion and Hope', tales of unrequited love `Today I Decide To Die', tales of affairs `Then the Game Begins' and tales of love that cannot be spoken `Into The Unknown' really Guo has covered the whole gambit and I haven't even mentioned them all. I should mention that everyone should read `An Internet Baby' which is only eight pages long but completely shocking.
Guo is an author who will use differing forms of writing in her books. In UFO in Her Eyes the book is written in case notes and transcript interview records and 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth is interspersed with images. In this book, more than in her previous books, Guo really goes to town with writing styles. Some as I mention are told through emails, some through letters, some simply in first or third person, one short story is told in time sequence another by alternate narrators, making it a heady experience for the reader. One tale that I think shows the brilliance of Guo and her writing is called `The Third Tree' and is told through thirty pages of text messages. Now when I saw this I didn't think it would work, however I got completely involved in the tale and even felt the emotional punch at the end. Utter genius. Again it's also a very insightful look at modern love in our society today now we have this technology.
Actually having said its all about love there is one story `Junk Mail' which I couldn't see linking to love, as its about those emails we all receive about having won millions, or getting a share in someone else's millions brilliantly told through emails. In fact `Beijing Morning Star' is about how we have to edit things in our lives and in this case in a paper in order to be PC and not offend. I would say that it's a book about modern times, modern people and modern emotions, yet the last tale Flower of Solitude reads like an old myth. I think maybe its best to simply describe it as a book of brilliance instead.
Guo is an author who will use differing forms of writing in her books. In UFO in Her Eyes the book is written in case notes and transcript interview records and 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth is interspersed with images. In this book, more than in her previous books, Guo really goes to town with writing styles. Some as I mention are told through emails, some through letters, some simply in first or third person, one short story is told in time sequence another by alternate narrators, making it a heady experience for the reader. One tale that I think shows the brilliance of Guo and her writing is called `The Third Tree' and is told through thirty pages of text messages. Now when I saw this I didn't think it would work, however I got completely involved in the tale and even felt the emotional punch at the end. Utter genius. Again it's also a very insightful look at modern love in our society today now we have this technology.
Actually having said its all about love there is one story `Junk Mail' which I couldn't see linking to love, as its about those emails we all receive about having won millions, or getting a share in someone else's millions brilliantly told through emails. In fact `Beijing Morning Star' is about how we have to edit things in our lives and in this case in a paper in order to be PC and not offend. I would say that it's a book about modern times, modern people and modern emotions, yet the last tale Flower of Solitude reads like an old myth. I think maybe its best to simply describe it as a book of brilliance instead.
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