**Xiaolu Guo *is the author of Village of Stone *, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth, I Am China, A Lover's Discourse, and Nine Continents. She has been named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. Guo is also an award-winning director; h...

**Xiaolu Guo *is the author of Village of Stone *, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth, I Am China, A Lover's Discourse, and Nine Continents. She has been named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. Guo is also an award-winning director; her films include She, a Chinese and UFO in Her Eyes, and she has been featured in retrospectives around the world. She lives in London and Berlin.