"CALL ME ISHMAELLE"
2025

a reimagining of Melville's MOBY DICK

UK - Chatto & Windus
US - Grove

UK LAUNCH 20 March 2025

US LAUNCH October 2025

ABOUT THE BOOK

"EVERYDAY TANG
On What We Can Learn From A Dynasty"
Nonfiction - 2025

Notting Hill Editions, London &
New York Review of Books

LAUNCH October 2025

"MY BATTLE OF HASTINGS"
2024

SYNOPSIS

PRAISES

REVIEWS

"RADICAL - A LIFE OF MY OWN"
2023

LAUNCH 13 APRIL 2023,

BRITISH LIBRARY, LONDON

REVIEWS

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"A LOVER'S DISCOURSE"
Novel - 2020

Shortlisted for the Goldsmith Prize 2020
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2021

PUBLICATION DATES

sdaUK : Penguin Random House - May 2020
sdaUS : Grove Atlantic - Oct 2020
sdaGermany : Penguin Knaus - 5 October 2022

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"NINE CONTINENTS" (US title)
"ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE EAST" (UK title)ss
MEMOIR - 2017

PUBLICATION DATES

sdaUK : Chatto & Windus - Jan 2017
sdaUS : Grove Atlantic - Sept 2017
sdaGermany : Knaus - Sept 2017
sdaItaly: Metropoli d'Asia - Sept 2017
sd aSweden : Alfabeta - Sept 2017
sda Iceland : Angustura - Oct 2019sda sda sda sda sda

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"I AM CHINA" ss NOVEL - 2014

PUBLICATION DATES

sdaUK : Chatto & Windus - June 2014
sdaUS : Nan Talese / Doubleday - Sept 2014
sdaGermany : Knaus - Sept 2014
sdaItaly: Metropoli d'Asia - Nov 2014
sda Spain : Destinos - Nov 2014
sd aSweden : Alfabeta - March 2015 sda sda sda sda sda sda
sd aDenmark : Rosenkilde & Bahnhof - 2015
sd aBrazil : Editora Objectiva - 2015
sd aCzech - Dobrovský - Jan 2016


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"LOVERS IN THE AGE OF INDIFFERENCE"
Short stories collection

For the last 10 years, on the journey from east to west, from country to country, these stories have embedded themselves in my body.

Publication UK : 26 January 2010 - Chatto & Windus / Random House

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"UFO IN HER EYES "

«The new moon was rising from the east, I saw my reflection in the water. A breeze came and broke my image, then it formed back slowly. I realized I was indeed leaving this place, and I started to cry.»

UK - January 2009 - Chatto & Windus / Random House
Germany - June 2009 - Knaus

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"20 FRAGMENTS OF A RAVENOUS YOUTH "

«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 there. That is a wounded body. Habit keeps you giving space to another body,
where there is only emptiness.»

Read an Excerpt

UK - January 2008 - Chatto & Windus / Random House
USA - August 2008 - Nan A. Talese / Doubleday
France - Février 2009 - Buchet Chastel
Italy: Metropoli d'Asia - May 2015

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"A CONCISE CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY FOR LOVERS"

«we see each other naked, without distance»

Shortlisted for Orange Prize for Fiction 2007

Hardback published in the UK in february 2007 by Chatto & Windus
and in the US in September 2007 by Nan A. Talese
UK Paperback by Vintage, jan 2008

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"WHO IS MY MOTHER'S BOYFRIEND"
my collected film scripts (Chinese), China Film Press, 1999

about "who is my mother's boyfriend"

"MEMORIES OF AN ISLAND"
2015

read essay

"WAITING FOR THE SECOND RENAISSANCE"
Octobre 2014

read essay

"FIVE SONGS"
April 2013

Written as Xiaolu is named as one of
Granta Magazine's "Best of young British Novelists"

read essay

"BEYOND DISSIDENCE"
December 2012

About Mo Yan's Literature Nobel Prizel

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"NOTES TOWARDS A METAPHYSICAL CINEMA MANIFESTO "
March 2010

First presented at Cinéma du Réel Festival, Paris 2010

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"FURTHER NOTES TOWARDS A METAPHYSICAL CINEMA MANIFESTO "
July 2010

manifesto pt 2aseresresresr

"A SOUL IN SAKHALIN "
Short Story, read by Xiaolu Guo, Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 (The Essay), January 2010

read the essay

"IDENTITY"
essay, the Independent, London, 10 May 2008

read the essay