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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.
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A concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Xiaolu Guo
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- Année de publication
- 2008
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Xiaolu Guo
- Éditeur
- Vintage
- Publié
- 2008
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 353
- ISBN10
- 0099520796
- ISBN13
- 9780099520795
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Romans d'amour, Romans historiques, Littérature contemporaine, Amour, Romance contemporaine, Érotisme, Nourriture, Angleterre, Chine, Grande-Bretagne, Asie, Londres, Culture, Voyage, Étude, Destin, Futur, Solitude
- Première publication
- 1997
- Titre original
- A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers
- Évaluation
- 3,75 sur 5
- Description
- 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.