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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Xiaolu Gu
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Xiaolu Gu
2008
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Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction
Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself - Westerners cannot pronounce her name) 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...
Xiaolu Guo was named as one of Granta''s Best of Young British Novelists
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