00000cam a22000003a 4500 UP-1685594773862217419 Buklod 20250114141624.0 m | | ta 250114s2017 enka r |000 0aeng d 9781784702946 (iLib)UPBAG-00038350784 BG-17148 Gift- Prof. Delfin L. Tolentino DLC BAG rda eng PR 9450.9 G86 Z46 2017 Guo, Xiaolu 1973- author. Once upon a time in the East a story of growing up Xiaolu Guo. London Vintage 2017. 317 pages illustrations 20 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier 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. "Costa Book Awards 2017"--Cover. Guo, Xiaolu 1973- Childhood and youth. China Social life and customs 1976-2002. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN PR 9450.9 G86 Z46 2017 Book