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 mishaps, she winds up lodging with a Chinese family and thinks she might as well not have left home. But then she meets an English man who changes everything. From the moment he smiles at her, she enters a new world of sex, freedom, and self-discovery. But she also 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.
Drawing on her diaries from when she first arrived in the UK, Xiaolu Guo winningly writes the story in steadily improving English grammar and vocabulary. Freshly humorous, sexy, and poignant, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers is an utterly original novel about language, identity, and the cultural divide.</p>
郭小橹,1973年生于浙江温岭石塘镇渔村,18岁就读北京电影学院,获学士及硕士学位,写剧本,做电影导演,发表小说和影评,出版有文集《电影地图》、《电影理论笔记》,小说《芬芳的37°2》、《我心中的石头镇》和电影剧本《我妈妈的男朋友是谁》等。2002年起旅居英国,至今拍了六部长短片,包括纪录北京申奥期间的《嵌入肉体的城市》,获法国巴黎“国际人权影展”大奖、描写城乡及归乡情结的《今天的鱼怎么样?》,获2007年法国 Créteil“国际女性影展”评审团大奖,以及藉由双亲的东西行旅透视文化冲突的新片《西行之路》等。
第一是英语。那简直是灾难。各种语法错误,各种胡说八道。一开始好像是故意的,女主角刚到英国,刚开始学习语言,这个是日记体小说,故意写错句子什么的,可以理解。但一直到小说最后,各种错误还是不断。怎么能出版还各种评奖呢? 第二是剧情。有的书吹嘘自己的时候会说纯净得...
评分 评分学校图书馆的书貌似是太匮乏了。来来回回转了好久,想看的书全部没有,最后才选了这本书。完全没有看内容,只是凭这个外表,我喜欢这样子的华丽的外表,看着不俗套很可爱、、、 想想自己难道是“外貌”协会的?不然为什么每次买书都是外表包装放在第一位?这本书的版式封...
评分买书前,我对这本书的期待是,一个女孩孤身一人在异乡的国土上,面对文化冲击,坚强独立的走来。 明显的,这是一本,一个懦弱无能的女人除了对英国人的性方面大胆接受以外,直到回国还是一个非常依赖,只顾爱情家庭的女人。 我不喜欢书中的“Z",甚至到了鄙视的程度。 如果我...
评分The plot is simple. Zhuang Xiaoqiao, a young woman comes to the UK to study English, with little knowledge of the country, and the language. She meets an artist in London. They becomes lovers and she moves into his flat in the rough side of London. She expl...
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评分在英国留学过的同学一定要看下
评分在英国留学过的同学一定要看下
评分看Chinglish还是挺吃力的,换做老外读可能觉得更有意思,自己读觉得“这个女孩怎么这么肤浅无知”。。。
评分把留学英国的中国女生刻画得如此无助迷惘脆弱毫无目标,让人气不打一处来。
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