I Am China

  • Author Xiaolu Guo
  • Narrator Andrew Leung, Karen Bryson, Sarah Lam
  • Publisher Random House
  • Run Time 11 hours and 46 minutes
  • Format Audio
  • Genre Modern and contemporary fiction.
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In a flat above a noisy north London market, translator Iona Kirkpatrick starts work on a Chinese letter: Dearest Mu, The sun is piercing, old bastard sky. I am feeling empty and bare. Nothing is in my soul, apart from the image of you. I am writing to you from a place I cannot tell you about yet…

In a detention centre in Dover exiled Chinese musician Jian is awaiting an unknown fate. In Beijing his girlfriend Mu sends desperate letters to London to track him down, her last memory of them together a roaring rock concert and Jian the king on stage. Until the state police stormed in.

As Iona unravels the story of these Chinese lovers from their first flirtations at Beijing University to Jian’s march in the Jasmine Revolution, Jian and Mu seem to be travelling further and further away from each other while Iona feels more and more alive. Intoxicated by their romance, Iona sets out to bring them back together, but time seems to be running out.

Critics Review

  • Heart-wrenching… An extraordinary and important book

    Independent

  • Beautifully written… Genuinely affecting… Exceptional

    Scotland on Sunday

  • An ambitious, thought-provoking and engaging narrative

    Evening Standard

  • Beautifully rendered

    New York Times

  • Beautifully done

    Red

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