RRP: £12.99
Publisher: CHATTO & WINDUS
Publication Date : 05/02/2009
Hardback
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Guardian Bookshop Notes:
A tale of the unexpected from Xiaolu Guo, author of "A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers" and "20 Fragments Of A Ravenous Youth". Set in a peasant village in China in the year 2012 it promises to be a characteristically original, quirky and intelligent novel.
Publisher's description:
Silver Hill Village, 2012. On the twentieth day of the seventh moon Kwok Yun is making her way across the rice fields on her Flying Pigeon bicycle. Her world is upturned when she sights a UFThing - a spinning plate in the sky - and helps the Westerner in distress whom she discovers in the shadow of the alien craft.
ISBN: 9780701183356