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A Lover's Discourse by Xiaolu Guo
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A story of desire, love and language - and the meaning of home - told through conversations between two lovers A Chinese woman comes to London to start a new life - away from her dead parents, away from her old world. She knew she would be lonely, but will her new relationship with the Australian-Britis ...Show more
A Lover's Discourse by Xiaolu Guo
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
'A fragmentary meditation on the nature of love' GuardianA Chinese woman comes to post-Brexit London to start over - just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch.Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape architect and the two begin to build their fut ...Show more
Language: Vintage Minis by Xiaolu Guo
$9.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the language a muddle of personal pronouns and moody verbs. But with increasing fluency in English surviving turn ...Show more
Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up by Xiaolu Guo
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
'Ah, Xiaolu, you are so big now!' Then I heard my grandmother speaking behind the woman, 'This is your mother, call her mother!' I stared at the woman, perplexed. Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is six. They are strangers to her. When Xiaolu is born her parents hand her over to ...Show more
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