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02097aam a2200397Ki 4500 001 C7C289FCF11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180104010254 008 160914t20172017enka e 000 0aeng d 010 $a 2016436950 020 $a 1784740683 020 $a 9781784740689 020 $a 1784740675 020 $a 9781784740672 035 $a (OCoLC)967376866 040 $a NLE $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d NLE $d NZFNP $d YDX $d UAB $d AUPTL $d OCLCO $d AUPTL $d NZGPL $d OCLCQ $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a e-uk-en $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PR9450.9 G86 Z46 2017 082 04 $a 823.92 $2 23 082 04 $a 951.057092 $2 23 100 1 $a Guo, Xiaolu, $d 1973- $e author. 245 10 $a Once upon a time in the East : $b a story of growing up / $c Xiaolu Guo. 264 1 $a London : $b Chatto & Windus, $c 2017. 300 $a 317 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 500 $a "As read on BBC Radio 4"--Front book cover. 520 $a Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the mountains. Aged two, and suffering from malnutrition on a diet of yam leaves, they leave Xiaolu with her illiterate grandparents in a fishing village on the East China Sea. It's a strange beginning. Guo's extraordinary memoir is a handbook of life lessons. How to be an artist when censorship kills creativity and the only job you can get is writing bad telenovela scripts. How to be a woman when female babies are regularly drowned at birth and sexual abuse is commonplace. Most poignantly of all: how to love when you've never been shown how. 600 10 $a Guo, Xiaolu, $d 1973- $x Childhood and youth. 650 0 $a Authors, Chinese $y 21st century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Authors, English $y 21st century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women $z China $v Biography. 651 0 $a China $x Social life and customs $y 1976-2002. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200806023429.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C7C289FCF11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search