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By (author): Xiaolu Guo

Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the language a muddle of personal pronouns and moody verbs. But with increasing fluency in English surviving turns to living. And they say that the best way to learn a language is to fall in love with a native speaker

Selected from the book A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo

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Product Details
  • Weight: 65g
  • Dimensions: 110 x 178mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Jun 2017
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781784872700

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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