A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - Guo, Xiaolu
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Drawing on her diaries written upon her initial arrival in London, Guo creates this story to match her own steadily improving English. Freshly humorous, sexy, and poignant, this debut novel is an utterly original story about language, identity, and the cultural divide.

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Produktbeschreibung
Drawing on her diaries written upon her initial arrival in London, Guo creates this story to match her own steadily improving English. Freshly humorous, sexy, and poignant, this debut novel is an utterly original story about language, identity, and the cultural divide.
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Autorenporträt
Xiaolu Guo published six books in China before moving to London in 2002. The English translation of Village of Stone was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her first novel written in English, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, and Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth, published in 2008, was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. She is also a successful director of feature films, including She, a Chinese and UFO in Her Eyes, and documentaries; her work has premiered at the Venice Film Festival, the Toronto Film Festival, and other venues all over the world. She was named as one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists in 2013. www.guoxiaolu.com
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Written in deliberately bad English, this is a wonderful comic romance Eileen Battersby Irish Times