Vintage 2008
paperback
Fr. 17.90

Xiaolu Guo

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2007. 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…