{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/b5fe8d16-7518-4208-861b-e1ec5ce88192/67ee9983da5ebf8764391997?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Little Atoms 945 - Xiaolu Guo's Call Me Ishmaelle","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/60ed7797f1734ba0e93d0e59/1743689593611-4ee8c455-eda9-4b35-8274-c32938fcbd80.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Xiaolu Guo&nbsp;was born in China. She published six books before moving to Britain in 2002. Her books include:&nbsp;<em>Village of Stone</em>, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize;&nbsp;<em>A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers</em>, shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and<em>&nbsp;I Am China</em>. Her recent memoir,&nbsp;<em>Once Upon a Time in the East</em>, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018. It was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Her most recent novel&nbsp;<em>A Lover's Discourse</em>&nbsp;was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. On this week’s episode of Little Atoms she talks to Neil Denny about her latest novel <em>Call Me Ishmaelle</em>.</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Neil Denny"}