Author Spotlight: Xiaolu Guo South Carolina Book Award Nominee for Young Adult (2017) Albert Camus's first novel

Albert Camus's first novel

in strikingly contemporary style

Its chapters are short

Everyone obeys

and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue

Author Spotlight: Xiaolu Guo South Carolina Book Award Nominee for Young Adult (2017) Albert Camus's first novelDescription: Xiaolu Guo is a prolific Chinese born British novelist, memoirist and film maker, who explores migration, alienation, and transnational identities through her works. Language is a series of excerpts from A Concise Chinese English Dictionary for Lovers, where passages are specifically picked out to depict the disorienting muddleness of a city when the language itself proves impenetrable. Meanwhile, A Concise Chinese Engish Dictionary