Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born her parents hand her over to a childless... Læs mere
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself - Westerners cannot pronounce her name) arrives in London to spend a year learning English.
A fascinating, profound and personal meditation on the magnificent and cosmopolitan Tang Dynasty (618–907), China's Golden Age