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Name: 14 A Korean-English dictionary
Format: pdf
Size: 212.17 MB

Title: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Author: Xiaolu Guo
Language: polski
Year: 2008
Subjects: Awards, Fiction, Literature, World Fiction, Peoples & Cultures - Fiction, Fiction Subjects, Literary Fiction, Chinese Fiction, European Peoples & Cultures - Fiction & Literature, Asian Peoples & Cultures - Fiction & Literature, Conflicts - Fiction, English, Scottish, & Welsh Fiction, Love & Relationships - Fiction, Women's Fiction, 21st Century Chinese Fiction, Brits - Fiction, Chinese People - Fiction, Culture Clash - Fiction, English Fiction - 21st Century, Relationships - Fiction, Women around the World, 2007 Orange Prize Shortlist
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780307455635
Total pages: 962

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 novel about identity and the cultural divide.