Book 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 turned upside down 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.
It's not long before the village is crawling with men from the
National Security and Intelligence Agency armed with pointed
questions. And when the Westerner that Kwok Yun saved repays her
kindness with a large dollar cheque she becomes a local celebrity,
albeit under constant surveillance...
Xiaolu Guo was born in a fishing village in south China. She studied
film at the Beijing Film Academy and published six books in China before
she moved to London in 2002. The English translation of
Village of
Stone
(Chatto, 2004) was shortlisted for the
Independent
Foreign Fiction Prize and nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin
Literary Award. Her first novel written in English,
A Concise
Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
was published by Chatto in 2007 and shortlisted for the Orange Prize
for Fiction. Xiaolu's film career continues to flourish; in 2007, she
was Cannes Film Festival Cinefondation resident, based in Paris.
