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"Written in deliberately bad English, this is a wonderful comic romance" (Eileen Battersby Irish Times)
"Xiaolu is a fabulous writer, fresh, witty and intelligent. She handles language in an astonishing way. I don't think I have enjoyed a book as much in the last twelve months and I am looking forward to hearing a lot more from this promising young voice." (Joanne Harris)
"A delicate combination of unwitting humour, sadness, sex and displacement. Unputdownable." (Katie Fforde)
"Her characterisation of Z's lover is subtle and profound... This novel will be compared with A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, but it is so much better than that. Guo uses her minimalist, messed-up prose not just to tell an affecting coming-of-age story, but to ask deep questions about the real differences between Chinese and British culture and language." (Scarlett Thomas Independent on Sunday)
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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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- VerlagVintage
- Erscheinungsdatum2008
- ISBN 10 0099520796
- ISBN 13 9780099520795
- EinbandTapa blanda
- Anzahl der Seiten368
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