"LOVERS IN THE AGE OF INDIFFERENCE"
Short stories collection

For the last 10 years, on the journey from east to west, from country to country, these stories have embedded themselves in my body.

Publication UK : 26 January 2010 - Chatto & Windus / Random House

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"UFO IN HER EYES "

«The new moon was rising from the east, I saw my reflection in the water. A breeze came and broke my image, then it formed back slowly. I realized I was indeed leaving this place, and I started to cry.»

UK - January 2009 - Chatto & Windus / Random House
Germany - June 2009 - Knaus

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"20 FRAGMENTS OF A RAVENOUS YOUTH "

«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 there. That is a wounded body. Habit keeps you giving space to another body,
where there is only emptiness.»

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UK - January 2008 - Chatto & Windus / Random House
USA - August 2008 - Nan A. Talese / Doubleday
France - Février 2009 - Buchet Chastel

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"A CONCISE CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY FOR LOVERS"

«we see each other naked, without distance»

Shortlisted for Orange Prize for Fiction 2007

Hardback published in the UK in february 2007 by Chatto & Windus
and in the US in September 2007 by Nan A. Talese
UK Paperback by Vintage, jan 2008

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"FIVE SONGS"
April 2013

Written as Xiaolu is named as one of
Granta Magazine's "Best of young British Novelists"

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"BEYOND DISSIDENCE"
December 2012

About Mo Yan's Literature Nobel Prizel

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"NOTES TOWARDS A METAPHYSICAL CINEMA MANIFESTO "
March 2010

First presented at Cinéma du Réel Festival, Paris 2010

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"FURTHER NOTES TOWARDS A METAPHYSICAL CINEMA MANIFESTO "
July 2010

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"A SOUL IN SAKHALIN "
Short Story, read by Xiaolu Guo, Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 (The Essay), January 2010

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"IDENTITY"
essay, the Independent, London, 10 May 2008

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"SECOND SEX, OR NOT ?"

"NOBODY KNOWS WHETHER THE MIDDLE CLASS LIKES SEX OR NOT"