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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
25.00 NZD
27.00 (7% off)
Category: General fiction
"Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) 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 ...Show more
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - Vintage Voyages by Xiaolu Guo
26.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindTwenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) 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 ...Show more
A Lover's Discourse by Xiaolu Guo
35.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
A story of desire, love and language - and the meaning of home - told through conversations between two lovers A Chinese woman comes to London to start a new life - away from her dead parents, away from her old world. She knew she would be lonely, but will her new relationship with the Australian-Britis ...Show more
I am China by Xiaolu Guo
35.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
In a flat above a noisy north London market, translator Iona Kirkpatrick starts work on a Chinese letter: Dearest Mu, The sun is piercing, old bastard sky. I am feeling empty and bare. Nothing is in my soul, apart from the image of you. I am writing to you from a place I cannot tell you about yet. In a ...Show more
Lovers in the Age of Indifference by Xiaolu Guo
39.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Xiaolu Guo, best known for her enchanting yet sharp take on culture-shock, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, presents a new work of fiction exploring the themes of love and exile that she has so brilliantly made her own.The lovers in the age of indifference are tough romantics from every ...Show more
Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up by Xiaolu Guo
37.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'Ah, Xiaolu, you are so big now!' Then I heard my grandmother speaking behind the woman, 'This is your mother, call her mother!' I stared at the woman, perplexed. Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is six. They are strangers to her. When Xiaolu is born her parents hand her over to ...Show more
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