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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

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

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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... Read more

    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
    Publication Date: 03/01/2008
    ISBN13: 9780099501473, 978-0099501473
    ISBN10: 0099501473

    Number of Pages: 368

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    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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