During the last 15 years in the UK I have published several novels and non-fictions with Random House about the culture of immigrants and women’s conditions. some received major literary prizes. I have also directed and filmed nearly 10 films about migration and women’s changing roles in the current society both in the East and West.
"ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE EAST"
MEMOIR - 2017
PUBLICATION DATES
UK : Chatto & Windus - Jan 2017
US : Grove Atlantic - Sept 2017
Germany : Knaus - Sept 2017
Italy: Metropoli d'Asia - Sept 2017
Sweden : Alfabeta - Sept 2017
"I AM CHINA"
NOVEL - 2014
PUBLICATION DATES
UK : Chatto & Windus - June 2014
US : Nan Talese / Doubleday - Sept 2014
Germany : Knaus - Sept 2014
Italy: Metropoli d'Asia - Nov 2014
Spain : Destinos - Nov 2014
Sweden : Alfabeta - March 2015
Denmark : Rosenkilde & Bahnhof - 2015
Brazil : Editora Objectiva - 2015
Czech - Dobrovský - Jan 2016
"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
Read an excerpt here
"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
"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
"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
Read excerpt: Here
Translations :
Originally published In Chinese By Shanghai Literature & Art Publishing House, 2003
In English by Chatto & Windus, 2004
In French (la ville de pierre) by Editions Philippe Picquier, 2004 - voir ici
In Dutch (dorp van steen) by Mouria, February 2004
in German (Stadt der Steine) by Knaus, 2004 - siehe hier
in Portuguese (aldeia de pedra) by Quetzal, 2004
in Polish ( Kamienna Wioska) by Muza, 2006