UFO in Her Eyes (Paperback)
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UFO in Her Eyes (Paperback)

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Paperback 208 Pages
Published: 07/01/2010
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Silver Hill Village, 2012. On the twentieth day of the seventh moon Kwok Yun is making her way across the rice fields on her Flying Pigeon bicycle. Her world is turned upside down when she sights a UFThing - a spinning plate in the sky - and helps the Westerner in distress whom she discovers in the shadow of the alien craft.

It's not long before the village is crawling with men from the National Security and Intelligence Agency armed with pointed questions. And when the Westerner that Kwok Yun saved repays her kindness with a large dollar cheque she becomes a local celebrity, albeit under constant surveillance...

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099526674
Number of pages: 208
Weight: 183 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 15 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

Guo's humour is bracingly ironic and tinderbox dry - The Times

A fast moving, barbed polemic...a sharp little book in which the legacy of the Cultural Revolution shimmers and festers... A writer to read, a writer who makes every word count - Irish Times

A breath of the freshest air imaginable. She cuts through the smog of hype and platitude - Boyd Tonkin, Independent

Sprightly... the comedy is neatly poised... a damning portrait of totalitarian China - Scotland on Sunday

The novel resonates in revelations of loss and pain - Guardian

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Emma Prince at Portsmouth

“Clever and memorable.”

A gentle novel exploring the impact of modern China on its small villages through a series of interviews conducted by various officials from Beijing.
A young girl has spotted a UFO in Silver Hill village and as a... More

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“Clever and memorable.”

A gentle novel exploring the impact of modern China on its small villages through a series of interviews conducted by various officials from Beijing.

A young girl has spotted a UFO in Silver Hill village and as a... More

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