Name: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
ISBN: 9780307278401

Xiaolu Guo

Written in a series of short chapters, with each one becoming the definition of a word, a literary novel about a young Chinese woman caught in the cultural confusion of England pokes fun at both England and China and explores the endless possibilities for misunderstanding between East and West, and between men and women. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

gela ⋆⭒˚｡⋆

“Thinking air staffs need to set a special time-zone for long-distance airplanes, or passengers like me very confusing about time. When a body floating in air, which country she belonging to?”

“London, by appearance, so noble, respectable, but when I follow these Alis, I find London a refuge camp.”

“This country to me, this a new world. I not having past in this country. No memory being builded here so far, no sadness or happiness so far, only information, hundreds and thousands of information, which confuse me everyday.”

“The memory keeps a portrait about you. An abstract portrait like pictures I saw in Tate Modern, blur details and sketchy lines. I start to draw this picture, but my memory about you keeps changing, and I have to change the picture.”

:( reading this at 9AM and feeling inordinately soft :(

“And then daytime. Sun puts light through garden to our bed. Birds are singing on roof. I think how sunlight must make people much happier in this dark country and then I watch you wake up.”