A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

Xiaolu Guo

Original title: A concise Chinese-English dictionary for lovers

earliest edition we have, 2007 Nan A. Talese, 2007 304 pages

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers heralds the American debut of a remarkably gifted young writer. Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang, the daughter of shoe factory owners in rural China, has come to London to study English. She calls herself Z because English people can't pronounce her name, but she's no better at their language. Set loose to find her way through a confusion of cultural gaffes and grammatical...

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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers edition · 2008 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780307455635
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers edition · 2007 · Nan A. Talese · 304 pages · 9780385520294
A concise Chinese-English dictionary for lovers edition · 2007 · Chatto & Windus · 353 pages · 9780701181147

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