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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Xiaolu Guo
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Description for A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Paperback. Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 288.
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction
Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself - Westerners cannot pronounce her name) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain...
Xiaolu Guo was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099501473
SKU
V9780099501473
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About Xiaolu Guo
Xiaolu Guo was born in China. She published six books before moving to Britain in 2002. Her books include: Village of Stone, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and I Am China. Her recent memoir, Once Upon a Time in the East, won the National Book Critics Circle ... Read more
Reviews for A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Written in deliberately bad English, this is a wonderful comic romance
Eileen Battersby
Irish Times
An utterly captivating, and disorientating, journey both through language and through love
Independent
Guo uses her minimalist messed-up prose not just to tell an affecting coming-of-age story but to ask deep questions about the real differences between Chinese and British ... Read more
Eileen Battersby
Irish Times
An utterly captivating, and disorientating, journey both through language and through love
Independent
Guo uses her minimalist messed-up prose not just to tell an affecting coming-of-age story but to ask deep questions about the real differences between Chinese and British ... Read more