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Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up, by Xiaolu Guo (2017)

juliana brina 14 de September de 2017 0 Comments

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Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up, by Xiaolu Guo (2017)
- Also published in the United States with the title Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China (2017)

About the book:

Vintage Books, 2017, 304 p. Goodreads
Also published in the USA with the title Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China, Grove Press, 2017, 304 p. Goodreads
My rating: 4 stars
This book was kindly sent to me by Grove Press for review.

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