A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

Type

Book

Authors

Xiaolu Guo

ISBN 10

0099501473

ISBN 13

9780099501473

Tags

Contemporary Women, Contemporary, Literary, Literature

Description

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 - from Amzon

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