A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers: A Novel Xiaolu Guo,
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
ISBN: 0385520298
DDC: 823.92
Edition: Hardcover; 2007-09-04
Summary:
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers heralds the American
debut of a remarkably gifted young writer. Twenty-three-year-old
Zhuang, the daughter of shoe factory owners in rural China, has come
to London to study English. She calls herself Z because English
people can’t pronounce her name, but she’s no better at their
language. Set loose to find her way through a confusion of cultural
gaffes and grammatical mishaps, she winds up lodging with a Chinese
family and thinks she might as well not have left home. But then she
meets an English man who changes everything. From the moment he
smiles at her, she enters a new world of sex, freedom, and
self-discovery. But she also 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.Drawing on her diaries from when she first arrived in the UK,
Xiaolu Guo winningly writes the story in steadily improving English
grammar and vocabulary. Freshly humorous, sexy, and poignant, A
Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers is an utterly original
novel about language, identity, and the cultural divide.
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