A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

From one of our most important contemporary Chinese authors: a novel of language and love that tells one young Chinese woman's story of her 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. S...