Xiaolu Guo's extraordinary memoir is a handbook of life lessons. How to be an artist when censorship kills creativity and the only job you can get is writing bad telenovela scripts. How to be a woman when female babies are regularly drowned at birth and sexual abuse is commonpla…
Xiaolu Guo's extraordinary memoir is a handbook of life lessons. How to be an artist when censorship kills creativity and the only job you can get is writing bad telenovela scripts. How to be a woman when female babies are regularly drowned at birth and sexual abuse is commonpla…
Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born 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 wi…
by Coelho, Paulo, Amnesty International, Griffiths, Richard, Oates, Joyce Carol, Constantine, David, Beah, Ishmael, Guo, Xiaolu, Pung, Alice, Fosse, Jon, Garner, Alan, Mosley, Walter, Yoshimoto, Banana, Lewycka, Marina, Mankell, Henning, Tutu, Desmond, Dunmore, Helen, Chaudhuri, Amit, Wright, Alexis, Badr, Liana, Knezevic, Olja, Smith, Ali, Mistry, Rohinton, Gappah, Petina, Saeed, Mahmoud, Gordimer, Nadine, Goytisolo, Juan, Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, Martel, Yann, Kennedy, A. L., Camin, Hector Aguilar, Dorfman, Ariel, Meek, James, Mitchell, David, (David Stephen), Ambrosio, Gabriella, Ali, Naseehu Mohammed, Grace, Patricia, Atkinson, Kate
"Inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which starts memorably with Article 1: We are all born free and equal, Freedom is an enthralling anthology of short stories"--Provided by the publisher.