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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers Xiaolu Guo

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers von Xiaolu Guo

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers Xiaolu Guo


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Zusammenfassung

A charming and clever account of one woman's exploration of love, language and identity.

Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English.

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers Zusammenfassung

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers: (Vintage Voyages) Xiaolu Guo

A charming and clever account of one woman's exploration of love, language and identity.

Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) 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...

VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers Bewertungen

Written in deliberately bad English, this is a wonderful comic romance -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *
Xiaolu is a fabulous writer, fresh, witty and intelligent. She handles language in an astonishing way. I don't think I have enjoyed a book as much in the last twelve months and I am looking forward to hearing a lot more from this promising young voice. * Joanne Harris *
A delicate combination of unwitting humour, sadness, sex and displacement. Unputdownable. * Katie Fforde *
Her characterisation of Z's lover is subtle and profound... This novel will be compared with A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, but it is so much better than that. 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 culture and language. -- Scarlett Thomas * Independent on Sunday *
An auspicious English language debut...its young heroine adrift in a London whose people and customs prove as full of pitfalls as the tongue she struggles to master. -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent, Christmas books special *

Über 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 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 A Lover's Discourse was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a visiting professor at the Free University in Berlin.

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GOR011050829
9781784875312
1784875317
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers: (Vintage Voyages) Xiaolu Guo
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Vintage Publishing
20190606
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