A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, A by Xiaolu Guo

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, A by Xiaolu Guo

Z is a 23-year-old Chinese language student who has come to London to learn English. When the book begins she can barely ask for a cup of tea, but when language comes, so does love. As she gets to know British culture she also falls for an older English man who lives a resolutely bachelor life in Hackney. It's a million miles away from the small Chinese town she comes from, where her parents want nothing more for her than that she should follow them into the shoe business. Z learns about sex, humour, companionship and passion, but she also learns the painful truth that language is also a barrier and the more you know about it, the less you understand. Written in short chapters, each the definition of a word, this is a brilliantly clever book that pokes fun at England and China and explores the endless possibilities for misunderstanding between East and West, men and women.

Xiaolu Guo was born in 1973 in a fishing village in south China. Having studied film at the Beijing Film Academy, she published a number of books in China and made the prize-winning film Love in the Internet Age (1999). She moved to London in 2002, to pursue her film-making, and began a diary in English which was the seed for the novel A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers. The English translation of Village of Stone was published by Chatto in 2004.

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ISBN 13	9780701181147
ISBN 10	0701181141
Title	A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, A
Author	Xiaolu Guo
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2007-02-01
Number of pages	368
Prizes	Short-listed for Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.