Ebook {Epub PDF} Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo

 · Helen Raftery's review of the novel 饕餮青春的二十个瞬间, 'Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth', by the Chinese author 郭小橹 (Guo Xiaolu).Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. 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 beside you. That is a wounded body: a body that feels connected to someone who is no longer there.”. ― Xiaolu Guo, Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth. Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth is a small book, but it does provide an insight into a world many of us know so little about, life inside Communist China. Told in twenty chapters, each a fragment of Fenfang's life, this book is a series of small narratives in the life of this young woman/5(26).

Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth. by Xiaolu Guo (Nan A. Talese; $) September 1, Save this story for later. Save this story for later. Guo's début novel, first published eleven. But of course it is not, and Xiaolu Guo's energetic new novel, "Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth," puts a personal face on this enormous country. Guo - who at 34 already is a successful. The latest novel from Orange Prize finalist Xiaolu Guo is the enchantingly comic story of a young Chinese woman's life as a film extra in hyper-modern, tumultuous bltadwin.ru twenty-one-year-old Fenfang Wang has traveled 1, miles to seek her fortune in urban Beijing, she is ill-prepared for what greets her: a Communist regime that has outworn its welcome, a city in slap-dash development.

This item: 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth. by Xiaolu Guo Paperback. $ Only 1 left in stock - order soon. Ships from and sold by RICHnRICK Services. $ The dust jacket of Xiaolu Guo’s Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth depicts not one but three young Chinese women: on the front, a doll-eyed girl sips a pink milkshake through pursed, glossed lips; on the spine, she leans against a subway pole with eyes closed, as if exhausted by the title that slices across her face; and finally, on the luridly red-tinted back, she crosses a darkened. 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth. (2, ratings by Goodreads) Paperback. English. By (author) Xiaolu Guo. Share. Life as a film extra in Beijing might seem hard, but Fenfang won't be defeated. She has travelled miles to seek her fortune in the city, and has no desire to return to the never-ending sweet potato fields back home.