Résumé de "A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers"

Who would believe that reading a novel written in deliberately bad English could be as uplifting as this? But Xiaolu Guo, writing in English for the first time, has pulled it off. Her narrator, who calls herself Z because no one can pronounce her name, is a 23-year-old Chinese language student who comes to London to learn English. When she arrives 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. Z learns about sex ... Lire la suite , humour, companionship and passion. Written in short chapters, each the definition of a word, this clever book explores the endless possibilities for misunderstanding between East and West and paints a portrait of a relationship that everyone will understand, no matter what their nationality.