My Battle of Hastings

In winter 2021, Xiaolu Guo bought a tiny dilapidated flat on the Hastings seafront, a room of her own where she could write away from her domestic duties as a mother and wife in London. As Russia invaded Ukraine, she immersed herself in the landscape and its past, especially the historic violence between Normans and Saxons. My Battle of Hastings is a chronicle of Xiaolu''s life in Hastings and a portrait of a dislocated artist seeking to connect with her local environment in the hope of finding a deeper connection to her adopted nation. Filled with profound, beautiful and wry reflections on war, history, migration and belonging, Xiaolu''s journey into the past completes the triptych of memoirs that began with Once Upon A Time in the East , charting her childhood in China, then continued with Radical: A Life of My Own as she moved to New York without her husband and child. My Battle of Hastings is above all an exploration of how an immigrant, an outsider and a woman can truly embrace local and national history.

Commentaire

This is a beautiful, witty meditation on cultural cross-pollination on the English coast, and the meaning of home and history for a wandering artist Alice Albinia, author of The Britannias

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Xiaolu Guo, Guo Xiaolu
• Edition: Chatto and Windus
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 01.08.2024
• EAN: 9781784745370
• ISBN: 978-1-78474-537-0
• Pages: 256
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits) > Correspondance, journaux intimes; Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Sussex, NATURE / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Migration, immigration and emigration, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Autobiography: writers, Invasion, conquest and occupation