Language and love collide in this inventive novel of a young
Chinese woman's journey to the West and her attempts to understand
the language, and the man, she adores.
Zhuang - or "Z," to tongue-tied foreigners - has come to London to
study English, but finds herself adrift, trapped in a cycle of
cultural gaffes and grammatical mishaps. Then she meets an
Englishman who changes everything, leading her into a world of
self-discovery. She soon realizes that, in the West, "love" does
not always mean the same as in China, and that you can learn all
the words in the English language and still not understand your
lover. And as the novel progresses with steadily improving grammar
and vocabulary, Z's evolving voice makes her quest for
comprehension all the more poignant. With sparkling wit, Xiaolu Guo
has created an utterly original novel about identity and the
cultural divide.
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