A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Author(s): Xiaolu Guo
"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..."
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What happens when a Chinese girl adrift in Britain falls for an Englishman adrift in life: a funny, sexy, romantic novel
Xiaolu Guo was born in 1973 in a fishing village in south China. She studied film at Beijing Film Academy, worked as a screenwriter and film teacher as well as writing several books in Chinese. Xiaolu moved to London in 2002 where she began a diary written in English which became the seed for the novel A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers. Village of Stone, a novel first published in China, appeared in English translation in 2004.
General Fields
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- : Random House UK
- : VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
- : 0.293
- : 01 March 2008
- : 200mm X 133mm X 25mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Xiaolu Guo
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 823.92
- : very good
