A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
by Xiaolu Guo
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- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0701180382
- ISBN 13
- 9780701180386
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London: Chatto & Windus, March 2007. Trade Paperback. Full number line. Very Good. Not from a library. 354 pages.
From one of our most important contemporary Chinese authors: a novel of language and love that tells one young Chinese woman's story of her journey to the West—and her attempts to understand the language, and the man, she adores. Zhuang—or "Z," to tongue-tied foreigners—has come to London to study English, but finds herself adrift, trapped in a cycle of cultural gaffes and grammatical mishaps. Then she meets an Englishman who changes everything, leading her into a world of self-discovery. She soon realizes that, in the West, "love" does not always mean the same as in China, and that you can learn all the words in the English language and still not understand your lover. And as the novel progresses with steadily improving grammar and vocabulary, Z's evolving voice makes her quest for comprehension all the more poignant. With sparkling wit, Xiaolu Guo has created an utterly original novel about identity and the cultural divide.
Synopsis
XIAOLU GUO was born in 1973. After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy, she published a number of books in China. Since 2002, she has been dividing her time between London and Beijing. She has written and directed award-winning documentaries including The Concrete Revolution ; her first feature film, How Is Your Fish Today?, was screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2007 International Women’s Film Festival. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers , her third novel, is the first book she has written directly in English; it was short-listed for the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction.
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- Title
- A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
- Author
- Xiaolu Guo
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0701180382
- ISBN 13
- 9780701180386
- Publisher
- Chatto and Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- March 2007
- Pages
- 354
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- fiction, love stories, love, romance, language, identity, intercultural, humor, Chinese, students, Great Britain, Englang, London, Chinese, China
- Bookseller catalogs
- China; Fiction; Erotica; Humor, Comedy, Satire, Funny stuff; Britain;
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