UFO in Her Eyes
Author(s): Xiaolu Guo
Silver Hill Village, 2012. On the twentieth day of the seventh moon Kwok Yun is making her way across the rice fields on her Flying Pigeon bicycle. Her world is turned upside down when she sights a UFThing - a spinning plate in the sky - and helps the Westerner in distress whom she discovers in the shadow of the alien craft. It's not long before the village is crawling with men from the National Security and Intelligence Agency armed with pointed questions. And when the Westerner that Kwok Yun saved repays her kindness with a large dollar cheque she becomes a local celebrity, albeit under constant surveillance...
General Information
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- : Vintage
- : Vintage
- : 0.197
- : 01 January 2010
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Xiaolu Guo
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 208
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A tale of the unexpected from Orange Prize shortlisted Xiaolu Guo, also named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2013.
Guo's humour is bracingly ironic and tinderbox dry The Times
An entertaining read with a distinctive voice - and her most ambitious work yet Financial Times
The novel resonates in revelations of loss and pain Guardian
A fast moving, barbed polemic...a writer to read, a writer who makes every word count Irish Times
A breath of the freshest air imaginable. She cuts through the smog of hype and platitude Independent
Xiaolu Guo was born in a fishing village in south China. She studied film at the Beijing Film Academy and published six books in China before she moved to London in 2002. The English translation of Village of Stone (Chatto, 2004) was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her first novel written in English, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers was published by Chatto in 2007 and shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Xiaolu's film career continues to flourish; in 2007, she was Cannes Film Festival Cinefondation resident, based in Paris.
