Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

Twenty fragments of a ravenous youth / Xiaolu Guo.

by Guo, Xiaolu, 1973-

View full image

Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2008.

Rural youth -- China -- Fiction.

Extras (Actors) -- Fiction.

Beijing (China) -- Fiction.

1st ed. in the U.S.

167 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

"Coming-of-age story that follows a bright, impassioned young woman as she rushes headlong into the maelstrom of a rapidly changing Beijing to chase her dreams. Twenty-one year old Fenfang Wang has traveled one thousand eight hundred miles to seek her fortune in contemporary urban Beijing, and has no desire to return to the drudgery of the sweet potato fields back home. However, Fenfang is ill-prepared for what greets her: a Communist regime that has outworn its welcome, a city under rampant destruction and slap-dash development, and a sexist attitude seemingly more in keeping with her peasant upbringing than the country’s progressive capital. Yet Fenfang is determined to live a modern life. With courage and purpose, she forges ahead, and soon lands a job as a film extra. While playing roles like woman-walking-over-the bridge and waitress-wiping-a-table help her eke out a meager living, Fenfang comes under the spell of two unsuitable young men, keeps her cupboard stocked with UFO noodles, and after mastering the fever and tumult of the city, ultimately finds her true independence in the one place she never expected."--Publisher description.

Bildungsromans.

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal