Language - Vintage Minis

Name: Language
Price: 5.49 EUR
Author: Xiaolu Guo
ISBN: 9781473548541

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Xiaolu Guo

Vintage Digital
Paru le : 08/06/2017

Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is... > Lire la suite

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Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the language a muddle of personal pronouns and moody verbs. But with increasing fluency in English surviving turns to living. And they say that the best way to learn a language is to fall in love with a native speaker.Selected from the book A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS.
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Date de parution : 08/06/2017
Editeur : Vintage Digital
Collection : Vintage Minis
ISBN : 978-1-4735-4854-1
EAN : 9781473548541
Format : ePub

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Biographie de Xiaolu Guo

Xiaolu Guo was born in China. She published six books before moving to Britain in 2002. Her books include: Village of Stone, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and I Am China. Her recent memoir, Once Upon a Time in the East, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018.
It was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Her most recent novel A Lover's Discourse was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a visiting professor at the Free University in Berlin.