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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, Guo Xiaolu
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2008
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- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Guo Xiaolu
- Verlag
- Vintage
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2008
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 353
- ISBN10
- 0099520796
- ISBN13
- 9780099520795
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Romantik, Historische Romane, Gegenwartsliteratur, Liebe, Zeitgenössische Liebesromane, Erotik, Essen, England, China, Großbritannien, Asien, London, Kultur, Reise, Studium, Schicksal, Zukunft, Alleinsein
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1997
- Originaltitel
- A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers
- Bewertung
- 3,75 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.