"From NBCC-winning author of Nine Continents Xiaolu Guo, Radical is a playful, provocative memoir of a trip to New York that upended her sense of self as a woman, partner, mother, and artist. In the autumn of 2019, Xiaolu Guo traveled to New York to take up a visiting professorship for a year, leaving her child and partner behind in London. The encounter with American culture and people threatened her sense of identity and threw her into a crisis-of meaning, desire, obligation, and selfhood. This is a book about separation-by continents, by language, and from people. It's about being an outsider and the desperate longing to connect. At once a memoir, a lexicon, and an ardent love letter, Radical is an expression of her fascination with Western culture and her nostalgia for Eastern landscapes, and an attempt to describe the space in between"--
Biografie
Xiaolu Guo, geboren 1973 in einem Dorf am chinesischen Meer, ist in ihrer Heimat eine bekannte Filmemacherin und eine erfolgreiche Autorin. Seit 2002 hat sie auch einen Wohnsitz in London. "Stadt der Steine" ist der erste Roman, der im Westen erschien. Er wurde im April 2005 von der englischen Zeitung "The Independent" für den Foreign Fiction Prize nominiert.
