Synopsis
About Xiaolu Guo
See more books from this AuthorA young Chinese woman travels to London on a student visa and falls in love with a much older English bachelor.
Jun 24 2010 | Read Full Review of A Concise Chinese-English Dic...A young woman from rural China learns how to comprehend “love” and “heartbreak” in English in this quirky, touching novel. Zhuang, or “Z” to tongue-tied foreigne
Jun 25 2007 | Read Full Review of A Concise Chinese-English Dic...About one third into Guo Xiaolu's novel A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers , a man at an English pub says to the confused protagonist, a young Chinese woman named Z, "English is a bloo...
Jul 28 2008 | Read Full Review of A Concise Chinese-English Dic...Z is an appealing protagonist: curious about her new world, tough as her peasant background (abused by a mother who wanted a son), ferociously dedicated to improving her English, but also tender as she discovers love and sex with the man she addresses in the journal only as 'you.'" Maya Muir.
Dec 03 2007 | Read Full Review of A Concise Chinese-English Dic...Consequently, "broken English" is the standard mode of "English" communication evoked here, a desire then to produce the spoken and written words of an immigrant in a self-consciously rendered mimetic style.
May 04 2009 | Read Full Review of A Concise Chinese-English Dic...An aggregated and normalized score based on 40 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes