A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers Tapa blanda - 2007

US: Chatto & Windus, 2007. Paperback. Good. Communication is proving tricky for Ziao, a young woman fresh off the plane from China. When she finds herself pitched headlong into an affair, and li ving with her English boyfriend, she decides to write her very own dictiona ry, a Chinese-English dictionary for lovers. But will her new love survive the cultural chasms between East and West?

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Acceptable.

London: Chatto & Windus, March 2007. Trade Paperback. Full number line. Very Good. Not from a library. 354 pages.
From one of our most important contemporary Chinese authors: a novel of language and love that tells one young Chinese woman's story of her journey to the West—and her attempts to understand the language, and the man, she adores. Zhuang—or "Z," to tongue-tied foreigners—has come to London to study English, but finds herself adrift, trapped in a cycle of cultural gaffes and grammatical mishaps. Then she meets an Englishman who changes everything, leading her into a world of self-discovery. She soon realizes that, in the West, "love" does not always mean the same as in China, and that you can learn all the words in the English language and still not understand your lover. And as the novel progresses with steadily improving grammar and vocabulary, Z's evolving voice makes her quest for comprehension all the more poignant. With sparkling wit, Xiaolu Guo has created an utterly original… Leer más

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.