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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers: (Vintage Voyages)

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By (author): Xiaolu Guo

A charming and clever account of one womans 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...

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Product Details
  • Weight: 255g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Jun 2019
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781784875312

About Xiaolu Guo

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.

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