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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - Vintage Voyages by Xiaolu Guo
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | 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
$27.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
A Lover's Discourse by Xiaolu Guo
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'A fragmentary meditation on the nature of love' GuardianA Chinese woman comes to post-Brexit London to start over - just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch.Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape architect and the two begin to build their fut ...Show more
Once Upon A Time in the East - A Story of Growing up by Xiaolu Guo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDXiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born in 1973, her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the mountains. Aged two, and suffering from malnutrition on a diet of yam lea ...Show more
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