Parametry
- 353 stránek
- 13 hodin čtení
Více o knize
Z is a 23-year-old Chinese language student who has come to London to learn English. When the book begins she can barely ask for a cup of tea, but when language comes, so does love. As she gets to know British culture she also falls for an older English man who lives a resolutely bachelor life in Hackney. It's a million miles away from the small Chinese town she comes from, where her parents want nothing more for her than that she should follow them into the shoe business. Z learns about sex, humour, companionship and passion, but she also learns the painful truth that language is also a barrier and the more you know about it, the less you understand. Written in short chapters, each the definition of a word, this is a brilliantly clever book that pokes fun at England and China and explores the endless possibilities for misunderstanding between East and West, men and women.
Nákup knihy
A concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Xiaolu Guo
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 2008
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Doručení
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- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Xiaolu Guo
- Vydavatel
- Vintage
- Rok vydání
- 2008
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 353
- ISBN10
- 0099520796
- ISBN13
- 9780099520795
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletrie, Romantika, Historické romány, Láska, Současná literatura, Současná romantika, Erotika, Jídlo, Anglie, Velká Británie, Asie, Čína, Londýn, Kultura, Cesta, Studium, Osud, Budoucnost, Osamělost
- První vydání
- 1997
- Původní název
- A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers
- Hodnocení
- 3,75 z 5
- Anotace
- Z is a 23-year-old Chinese language student who has come to London to learn English. When the book begins she can barely ask for a cup of tea, but when language comes, so does love. As she gets to know British culture she also falls for an older English man who lives a resolutely bachelor life in Hackney. It's a million miles away from the small Chinese town she comes from, where her parents want nothing more for her than that she should follow them into the shoe business. Z learns about sex, humour, companionship and passion, but she also learns the painful truth that language is also a barrier and the more you know about it, the less you understand. Written in short chapters, each the definition of a word, this is a brilliantly clever book that pokes fun at England and China and explores the endless possibilities for misunderstanding between East and West, men and women.