Front cover image for Once Upon A Time in the East

Once Upon A Time in the East

Xiaolu Guo
Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is 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.
Print Book, English, 2018
Random House UK, 2018
314 sidor 19.8 cm
9781784702946, 1784702943
1027571291