Concise Chinese-english Dictionary for Lovers

In Xiaolu Guo's touching and innovative debut A CONCISE CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY FOR LOVERS, readers will see Western culture and the nuances of romance from a fresh, curious perspective and will find a heroine unlike any who have appeared in contemporary literary fiction. "A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Loversis original, humorous, and wise. Within imperfect language one can find many perfect truths of the human condition." - Amy Tan Zhuang is a 23-year-old Chinese language student who has come to London to learn English; she calls herself Z because no one can pronounce her name. When the book begins, she can barely ask for a cup of tea and spends her days looking up new words in her dictionary.Homesick,privacy, andloverare all new concepts for Z. At the movies one night, Z falls for an Englishman who lives a resolutely bachelor life. When she tells him she'd like to see where he lives, he replies sardonically "be my guest." Misunderstanding the meaning behind his words, Z moves in a week later. Over the course of a year, Z learns about love and sex, companionship and passion. She finds a freedom that she hadn't known in China but she also comes to learn the painful truth that you can learn all the words in the English language and still not understand your lover.Guo, Xiaolu is the author of 'Concise Chinese-english Dictionary for Lovers ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780385520294 and ISBN 0385520298.