Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

(Vintage Voyages)

AvXiaolu Guo

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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A charming and clever account of one woman’s exploration of love, language and identity.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...VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-06-06
Mått:124 x 193 x 24 mm
Vikt:280 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Vintage Voyages
Antal sidor:368
Förlag:Vintage Publishing
ISBN:9781784875312

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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.