'One of the most valuable writers in the world' Deborah Levy
My Battle of Hastings is an exploration of how an immigrant, an outsider and a woman can embrace local and national history.
In winter 2021, Xiaolu Guo moved into a tiny dilapidated flat on the Hastings seafront, a room of her own where she could spend time writing away from her domestic duties as a mother and wife in London. As Russia invaded Ukraine, she immersed herself in the English landscape and its past, especially the violence between Normans and Saxons.
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Publisher : Chatto & Windus (1 Aug. 2024)
Language : English
Hardcover : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 1784745375
ISBN-13 : 978-1784745370
Dimensions : 14.2 x 2.1 x 22.3 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 22,237 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
75 in British Historical Social & Urban History Biographies
76 in British Historical Military Biographies
216 in European Historical Biographies
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