Ebook {Epub PDF} Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo

Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth is a small book, but it does provide an insight into a world many of us know so little about, life inside Communist China. Told in twenty chapters, each a fragment of Fenfang's life, this book is a series of small narratives in the life of this young woman/5(27). 图书20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth 介绍、书评、论坛及推荐. 作者: Xiaolu Guo 出版社: Chatto Windus 出版年: 页数: 定价: GBP 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 豆瓣评 Author: Xiaolu Guo. A wounded body is when, after leaving a man you’ve lived with for three years, you curl up on your side of the bed as if there’s still somebody beside you. That is a wounded body: a body that feels connected to someone who is no longer there.”. ― Xiaolu Guo, Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth.

Although published over a decade ago in Guo's native China - and since reworked in English by the author - Guo's story set in a new China rushing toward modernization will surely have a long 21st-century shelf life. Guo's young heroine, Fenfang, is a naive yet determined village girl looking for love in all the wrong places in too-rapidly changing contemporary Beijing. Helen Raftery's review of the novel 饕餮青春的二十个瞬间, 'Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth', by the Chinese author 郭小橹 (Guo Xiaolu). Reading Xiaolu Guo's Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth was a great experience. It is about a young Chinese woman called Fenfang, who decides to leave her life as a peasant behind and start a new life in Beijing. Fenfang is ambitious and hard-working, she wants to become an actress and begins her career as an extra.

About Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth. The latest novel from Orange Prize finalist Xiaolu Guo is the enchantingly comic story of a young Chinese woman’s life as a film extra in hyper-modern, tumultuous twenty-one-year-old Fenfang Wang has traveled 1, miles to seek her fortune in urban Beijing, she is ill-prepared for what greets her: a. San Francisco ChroniclePraise from the UK for Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth:“Xiaolu Guo’s literary voice remains a breath of the freshest air imaginable.”— The Independent “Xiaolu Guo is an instinctive, humane witness, her atmospheric, unusually physical narratives are alive and attractively insistent, inspired variations on. 最近在英国出版的《20 Fragments of A Ravenous Youth》（笔者草译为‘一个饥俄青年的20片断’）是来自北京的作家和电影制作者郭小橹的新作。 作品描述的是一个名叫芬芳的农村姑娘，千里迢迢来到北京寻求她的艺术梦，并立志要征服这个城市的故事。.