Xiaolu Guo

Broschiertes Buch

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Xiaolu Guo was born in China. She published six books before moving to Britain in 2002. Her books include: Village of Stone, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and I Am China. Her recent memoir, Once Upon a Time in the East, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018. It was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Her most recent novel A Lover's Discourse was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a visiting professor at the Free University in Berlin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 715451
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780099501473
• ISBN-10: 0099501473
• Artikelnr.: 23244758

Rezensionen

Written in deliberately bad English, this is a wonderful comic romance Eileen Battersby Irish Times