{"product_id":"my-battle-of-hastings-xiaolu-guo","title":"My Battle of Hastings (Xiaolu Guo)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This is urgent, compelling but also delightful writing' Lauren Elkin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the depths of winter, Xiaolu Guo moves into a tiny dilapidated flat on the Hastings seafront - a room of her own where she can spend time writing, liberated from her domestic responsibilities in London.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe immerses herself in the English landscape and its past and becomes preoccupied by the violence between Normans and Saxons. Filled with profound, beautiful and wry reflections on war, history, migration and belonging \u003ci\u003eMy Battle of Hastings\u003c\/i\u003e is a chronicle of Xiaolu's life in Hastings and a portrait of a dislocated artist seeking to connect with her local environment in the hope of finding a deeper connection to her adoptive nation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Magnificent, brutal and poetic' Iain Sinclair\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'There is nobody quite like Xiaolu Guo... With \u003ci\u003eMy Battle of Hastings\u003c\/i\u003e, Guo shows us the effort that it takes to truly put down roots in a culture so different from the one she was born into' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eXiaolu Guo\u003c\/b\u003e was born in China. She published six books before moving to Britain in 2002. Her books include: \u003ci\u003eVillage of Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; \u003ci\u003eA Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and\u003ci\u003e I Am China\u003c\/i\u003e. Her recent memoir, \u003ci\u003eOnce Upon a Time in the East\u003c\/i\u003e, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018. It was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Her most recent novel \u003ci\u003eA Lover's Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a visiting professor at the Free University in Berlin.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 208 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65826086322525,"sku":"K097955390","price":11.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9795539000001A.jpg?v=1788681535","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/my-battle-of-hastings-xiaolu-guo","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}