Xiaolu Guo

eBook, ePUB

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

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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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
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781407065588
• Artikelnr.: 39213851

Rezensionen

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