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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - Vintage Voyages by Xiaolu Guo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindTwenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for ...Show more
A Lover's Discourse by Xiaolu Guo
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
Language: Vintage Minis by Xiaolu Guo
$7.99 AUD
Category: 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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDXiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born in 1973, her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the mountains. Aged two, and suffering from malnutrition on a diet of yam lea ...Show more
Radical: A Woman's Journey Through Wordscapes by Xiaolu Guo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The new memoir from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo - playful, provocative and original, it's her deeply personal take on striving for a life of her ownThe world can seem strange and lonely when you step away from your family and everything you have tried to call your own. Yet beauty may a ...Show more
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