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Z is a 23-year-old Chinese language student who has come to London to learn English. When the book begins she can barely ask for a cup of tea, but when language comes, so does love. As she gets to know British culture she also falls for an older English man who lives a resolutely bachelor life in Hackney. It's a million miles away from the small Chinese town she comes from, where her parents want nothing more for her than that she should follow them into the shoe business. Z learns about sex, humour, companionship and passion, but she also learns the painful truth that language is also a barrier and the more you know about it, the less you understand. Written in short chapters, each the definition of a word, this is a brilliantly clever book that pokes fun at England and China and explores the endless possibilities for misunderstanding between East and West, men and women.
Compra de libros
A concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Xiaolu Guo
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2008
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- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Xiaolu Guo
- Editorial
- Vintage
- Publicado en
- 2008
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 353
- ISBN10
- 0099520796
- ISBN13
- 9780099520795
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Romance, Novelas históricas, Ficción contemporánea, Amor, Romance contemporáneo, Pubblicazioni erotiche, Comida, Inglaterra, China, Gran Bretaña, Asia, Londres, Cultura, Viaje, Estudio, Destino, Futuro, Soledad
- Primera publicación
- 1997
- Título original
- A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers
- Calificación
- 3,75 de 5
- Descripción
- Z is a 23-year-old Chinese language student who has come to London to learn English. When the book begins she can barely ask for a cup of tea, but when language comes, so does love. As she gets to know British culture she also falls for an older English man who lives a resolutely bachelor life in Hackney. It's a million miles away from the small Chinese town she comes from, where her parents want nothing more for her than that she should follow them into the shoe business. Z learns about sex, humour, companionship and passion, but she also learns the painful truth that language is also a barrier and the more you know about it, the less you understand. Written in short chapters, each the definition of a word, this is a brilliantly clever book that pokes fun at England and China and explores the endless possibilities for misunderstanding between East and West, men and women.