Ebook A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Anch.r | 2008 | ISBN: 0307278409 | 304 pages | epub | ,nine MB
Language and enjoy collide in this inventive novel of a young Chinese womans journey to the West and her attempts to understand the language, and the man, she adores.Zhuang or Z, to tongue-tied foreigners has arrive to London to review English, but finds herself adrift, trapped in a cycle of cultural perche and grammatical mishaps. Then she meets an Englishman who modifications every little thing, leading her into a planet of self-discovery. She soon realizes that, in the West, love does not always imply the same as in China, and that you can discover all the words in the English language and still not understand your lover. And as the novel progresses with steadily strengthening grammar and vocabulary, Zs evolving voice helps make her quest for comprehension all the a lot more poignant. With sparkling wit, Xiaolu Guo has created an utterly authentic novel about identification and the cultural divide.
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