by Xiaolu Guo · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099501473
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«A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers» is the novel by Xiaolu Guo, published by Vintage in 2008 in paperback (368 pages, in English).
Zhuang, a twenty-three-year-old Chinese woman who calls herself Z, travels to London to study English for a year. Amid the oddities of the language and the customs of the city, she falls in love with an older English man and discovers that love is an even harder terrain to translate. Each brief chapter works like a dictionary entry.
The novel was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2007 and Xiaolu Guo was included in the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list.
For readers of contemporary and romantic fiction interested in the cultural clash between China and the West.
Xiaolu Guo is a Chinese-born British author, filmmaker and academic. Her writing and films explore migration, alienation, memory, personal journeys, feminism, translation and transnational identities.
