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Xiaolu Guo


Born
in Zhejiang, China
November 20, 1973

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Romance


Xiaolu Guo (Simplified Chinese: 郭小櫓 pinyin:guō xiǎo lǔ, born 1973) is a Chinese novelist and filmmaker. She utilizes various media, including film and writing, to tell stories of alienation, introspection and tragedy, and to explore China's past, present and future in an increasingly connected world.

Her novel A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers was nominated for the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction. She was also the 2005 Pearl Award (UK) winner for Creative Excellence. ...more

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Average rating: 3.68 · 20,510 ratings · 3,086 reviews · 37 distinct works • Similar authors
A Concise Chinese-English D...
3.56 avg rating — 7,322 ratings — published 2007 — 64 editions
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Twenty Fragments of a Raven...
3.68 avg rating — 3,516 ratings — published 2000 — 28 editions
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A Lover's Discourse
3.57 avg rating — 2,343 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions
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Once Upon a Time in the Eas...
4.14 avg rating — 2,016 ratings — published 2017 — 23 editions
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I Am China
3.72 avg rating — 1,114 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions
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Village of Stone
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Call Me Ishmaelle
3.73 avg rating — 689 ratings — published 2025 — 7 editions
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Language
3.83 avg rating — 618 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions
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UFO in Her Eyes
3.43 avg rating — 610 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions
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Lovers in the Age of Indiff...
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“It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.”
― Xiaolu Guo, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
tags: courage, dance, love, song-lyric
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“Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty.”
― Xiaolu Guo
tags: chinese, life, wisdom
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“About time, what I really learned from studying English is: time is different with timing.
I understand the difference of these two words so well. I understand falling in love with the right person in the wrong timing could be the greatest sadness in a person's entire life.”
― Xiaolu Guo, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
tags: love, sadness, time
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