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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
ISBN/GTIN

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

PaperbackPaperback
Ranking1199776inBelletristik
CHF18.90

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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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ISBN/GTIN978-0-09-950147-3
Product TypePaperback
BindingPaperback
Publishing date03/01/2008
Pages368 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 130 mm, Height 198 mm, Thickness 27 mm
Weight295 g
Article no.4911933
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.3332566
Product groupBelletristik
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Author

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.