A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

byXiaolu Guo

(Vintage Voyages)

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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

Written in deliberately bad English, this is a wonderful comic romance

Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

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.
Details
  • Series: Vintage Voyages
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • ISBN: 9781784875312
  • Length: 368 pages
  • Dimensions: 197mm x 23mm x 130mm
  • Weight: 258g
  • Price: £9.99