I Am China

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In a flat above a noisy north London market, translator Iona Kirkpatrick starts work on a Chinese letterDearest Mu, The sun is piercing, old bastard sky I am feeling empty and bare Nothing is in my soul, apart from the image of you I am writing to you from a place I cannot tell you about yetIn a detention centre in Dover exiled Chinese musician Jian is awaiting an unknown fate In Beijing his girlfriend Mu sends desperate letters to London to track him down, her last memory of them together a roaring rock concert and Jian the king on stage Until the state police stormed in.As Iona unravels the story of these Chinese lovers from their first flirtations at Beijing University to Jian s march in the Jasmine Revolution, Jian and Mu seem to be travelling further and further away from each other while Iona feels and alive Intoxicated by their romance, Iona sets out to bring them back together, but time seems to be running out. New Download Books I Am China By Xiaolu Guo – kino-fada.fr Seldom do I rue the absence of the solidity of a paperback I can clutch to my chest out of an overwhelming love, memorize the feel of its pages against my fingertips My priorities lie in knowing what I do not, the means to the end irrelevant in this instance The advent of the e reader has negated the problem of the steadily shrinking space on the book shelf and helped me horde books without a care And yet sometimes a kindle copy just isn t enough The last time I had felt this familiar pang o Seldom do I rue the absence of the solidity of a paperback I can clutch to my chest out of a...2 a tad ridiculous, a bit pretentious, really tried to like it stars.Gosh, this book tried to do so much and achieved very little.By all means this book coulda and shoulda have been a winner but it failed on so many counts.It had so many themes that I love in fiction alienation, romantic love, family history, politics, attempts at cross cultural understanding, myths, dreams etc etc etc All these ingredients were there and so manyShe kept adding to this International stew Mongol, 2 a tad ridiculous, a bit pretentious, really tried to like it stars.Gosh, this book tried to do so much and achieved very little.By all means this book coulda and shoulda have been a winner but it f...Thank you Doubleday Nan t Talese and Netgalley for providing this in exchange for an honest review 3.5 StarsFirst off I want to say the book description is kind of misleading A little over half the story is about the relationship between Mu and Jian However, a good chunk of the story is about Iona Iona is hired to translate Mu and Jian s letters and diaries It is Iona s story that knocked this down from a 5 Star read.I loved Mu from the start I feel she was the real heart and soul of th Thank you Doubleday Nan t Talese and Netgalley for providing this in exchange for an honest review 3.5 StarsFirst off I want to say the book description is kind of misleading A little over half the story is about the relationship between Mu and Jian However, a good chunk of the story is about Iona Iona is hired to translate Mu and Jian s letters and diaries It is Iona s story that knocked this down from a 5 Star read.I loved Mu from the start I feel she was the real heart and soul of this book Every time she was hit by tragedy, I wanted to cuddle her up in my arms and tell her we d find a way to make everything ok She is one of the most realistic characters I ve ever come across She is fiercely loyal and protective of t...First of all, let me say that this is a beautiful cover Second of all, let me say that I didn t pick it up because of the cover I picked it up because I read Guo s UFO in Her Eyes earlier this year and loved it And if I loved that book, I adored this one evenThe premise really intrigued me A young Scottish translator reading a jumble of letters and diary entries between two lovers Mu and Jian I love the structure of this novel, the translator Iona picks up a page and starts to t First of all, let me say that this is a beautiful cover Second of all, let me say that I didn t pick it up because of the cover I picked it up because I read Guo s UFO in Her Eyes earlier this year and loved it And if I loved that book, I adored this one evenThe premise really intrigued me A young Scottish translator reading a jumble of letters and diary entries between two lovers Mu and Jian I love the structure of this novel, the translator Iona picks up a page and starts to translate and gets completely absorbed in the story All throughout the book I had questions I was hungry to read this book, hungry for the answers.I love Guo s writing style She s witty and hopeful and a little bi...A book of three voices dissident Mongolian Chinese musician Jian, his poet girlfriend Mu, and their Scottish translator Iona Mu and Jian s disjointed story is told through diary entries, letters, newspaper clippings and Iona s research, as the translator becomes obsessed with her subjects, and their tragic tale emerges through her translations.Maybe it is because Xiaolu Guo is writing about...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 2011, in which he recounts his walk to Tiananmen Square the night after the massacre in June 1989 If you looked closely you could see the blood had soaked into the gaps between the stones I was deeply engrossed by the poetic language and attention to details The prose is elegant and smooth At times the mood and atmosphere i 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 2011, in which he recounts his walk to Tiananmen Square the night after the massacre in June 1989 If you looked closely you could see the blood had soaked into the gaps between the stones I was deeply engrossed by the poetic language and attention to details T...This is a heart wrenching love story, powerful socio political critique and a poignant reflection on cultural identities meshed masterfully into one This book was a delight to read the multiple layered were built upon another delicately yet they formed a coherent structure that flowed with ease I don t know how to precisely describe it but it was the kind of read...The Great Firewall of ChinaI Am China by Xiaolu GuoReview by Chris Craddock I Am China by Xiaolu Guo begins with Iona Kirkpatrick, a Scottish woman described as resembling Winona Ryder, receiving a package of letters and journals in Chinese for her to translate She is newly graduated but up to the task, though it takes a while for the characters to emerge, and for their story to make sense Iona was named for the Scottish Isle, and she herself is also a rocky and isolated island Though she goe The Great Firewall of ChinaI Am China by Xiaolu GuoReview by Chris Craddock I Am China by Xiaolu Guo begins with Iona Kirkpatrick, a Scottish woman described as resembling Winona Ryder, receiving a package of letters and journals in Chinese for her to translate She is newly graduated but...This was very gratefully received as an ebook from Random House UK Vintage Publishing via NetGalley.Iona is a lonely Chinese translator who is one day given a parcel of letters and diaries with no information about who they belong to The fragments are jumbled and some hard to read,but she pieces together the stories of Jian and Mu Jian, a popular Chinese punk musicia...I wouldn t have heard of I Am China if it weren t for the Bailey s Prize Long list, and that would have been a travesty Xiaolu Guo gripped me from the beginning with her interwoven stories of a translator and the lives of the people s diaries she is translating This novel way of telling a story worked brilliantly and left me with well rounded pictures of all the key characters With significant aspects of politics, communism and Chinese history that I was unaware of, this could have been beyon I wouldn t have heard of I Am China if it weren t for the Bailey s Prize Long list, and that would have been a travesty Xiaolu Guo gripped me from the beginning with her interwoven stories of a translator and the lives of the people s diari...

I Am China
  • English
  • 24 December 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 384 pages
  • 0385538715
  • Xiaolu Guo
  • I Am China