The latest novel from Orange Prize finalist Xiaolu Guo is the enchantingly comic story of a young Chinese woman's life as a film extra in hyper-modern, tumultuous Beijing.Though twenty-one-year-old Fenfang Wang has traveled 1,800 miles to seek her fortune in urban Beijing, she is ill-prepared for what greets her: a Communist regime that has outworn its welcome, a city in slap-dash development, and a sexist attitude more in keeping with her peasant upbringing than the country's progressive capital. But after mastering the fever and tumult of the city, Fenfang ultimately finds her true independence in the one place she never expected.
- ISBN10 0385525923
- ISBN13 9780385525923
- Publish Date 20 August 2008
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 6 August 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Nan A. Talese
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 167
- Language English