{"product_id":"once-upon-a-time-in-the-east-a-story-of-growing-up-9781784740672","title":"Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOnce Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up\u003c\/strong\u003e by Xiaolu Guo. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781784740672.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her.\n\nWhen she is born in 1973, her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the mountains. Aged two, and suffering from malnutrition on a diet of yam leaves, they leave Xiaolu with her illiterate grandparents in a fishing village on the East China Sea.\n\nOnce Upon a Time in the East takes Xiaolu from a run-down shack to film school in a rapidly changing Beijing, navigating the everyday peculiarity of modern China: censorship, underground art, Western boyfriends. In 2002 she leaves Beijing on a scholarship to study in Britain. Now, after a decade in Europe, her tale of East to West resonates with the insight that can only come from someone who is both an outsider and at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Chatto \u0026 Windus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986474725429,"sku":"ByrdShop_1784740675","price":49.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781784740672_bda2e39e-e799-4e35-b138-5088d779ff4c.jpg?v=1778900509","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/once-upon-a-time-in-the-east-a-story-of-growing-up-9781784740672","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}