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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

Author(s): Xiaolu Guo

Location(s): London

Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

Era(s): 2000s

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A young Chinese woman comes to London to learn English, and learns about love, men, Europe and living amongst the British. She falls for a quasi hippie and the fact it is written in a stilted English adds to the isolations of the writer’s experiences and observations.

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‘A sad, sweet and utterly original book’ (the Irish times)

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