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<p>Twenty-one-year-old Fenfang Wang has traveled 1,800 miles to seek her fortune in contemporary urban Beijing and has no desire to return to the drudgery of the sweet-potato fields back home. However, Fenfang is ill prepared for what greets her: a Communist regime that has outworn its welcome and a city under rampant destruction and slapdash development. Yet Fenfang is determined to live a modern life. With courage and purpose, she forges ahead, and soon lands a job as a film extra. While playing roles like“woman walking over the bridge” and “waitress wiping a table” helps her eke out a meager living, Fenfang comes under the spell of two unsuitable young men, keeps her cupboard stocked with UFO noodles, and, after mastering the fever and tumult of the city, ultimately finds her true independence in the one place she never expected.<br><br>At once lively and moving, wry and passionate, TWENTY FRAGMENTS OF A RAVENOUS YOUTH is a wholly original coming-of-age story that gives us a clear-eyed glimpse into the precarious and fragile state of China's new identity. The novel is sure to assert Xiaolu Guo as her generation’s voice of modern China.</p>
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Fenfang is a young Chinese woman who, around the turn of the millennium, leaves the claustropho...more...]]>
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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary) remind me a bit of Jean Rhys... stories of women who have moved to places that are foreign to them in search of something -- freedom, love, change, challenge -- and the alienation and loneline...more...]]>
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What is modern China like? What is it like to come of age there?
Fenfang Wang grew up living on a sweet potato farm. Her family is uncommunicative and seems to be depressed. There doesn't seem to be much opportunity there in that...more...]]>
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Fenfang works as a film extra among other jobs. There she meets Xiaolin an Assistant to the Producer. T...more...]]>
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