A Lover's Discourse by Xiaolu Guo (English) Paperback Book

Description: A Lover's Discourse by Xiaolu Guo A funny and charming new novel from Xiaolu Guo about love, language, displacement and finding our place in the worldA 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 future together.Playing with language and the cultural differences that our narrator encounters as she settles into her new life, the lovers must navigate their differences and their romance, whether on their unmoored houseboat or in a cramped apartment in east London. Suffused with a wonderful sense of humour, this intimate novel asks what it means to make a home and a family in a new land. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Xiaolu Guo was born in China. She published six books before moving to Britain in 2002. Her books include- Village of Stone, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and I Am China. Her recent memoir, Once Upon a Time in the East, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018. It was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Her most recent novel A Lovers Discourse was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a visiting professor at the Free University in Berlin. Review Guo is an unsparing noticer. The truthfulness and accuracy of Guos language gives the book mischief and energy. There are shades of Lydia Davis in her carefully etched sentences as she details the ups and downs of the relationship without sentimentality. . . . Along the way, its capacious enough to touch on moments of real darkness, while somehow managing to be mordant, funny and, ultimately, life-affirming -- Marcel Theroux * New York Times *A fragmentary meditation on the nature of love, on desire and on connection between two humans . . . this book sets off cross-cultural echoes with the lightest of strokes -- Aida Edemariam * Guardian *Xiaolu Guo writes with tremendous delicacy and nuance about migration, language, alienation, and love . . . Guo has pared down every tiny chapter to its poetic essence so as to let the largest themes emerge, thus taking the reader from the verbal to something approaching the numinous -- Mike Cormack * Spectator *A story told with charm that will leave you in a ponderous mood -- Susannah Butter * Evening Standard *Guos latest novel . . . demonstrates how much can be achieved when narrative is cut loose from plot and scene-setting in favour of free-floating reflection -- Anthony Cummins * i * Review Text Guo is an unsparing noticer. The truthfulness and accuracy of Guos language gives the book mischief and energy. There are shades of Lydia Davis in her carefully etched sentences as she details the ups and downs of the relationship without sentimentality. . . . Along the way, its capacious enough to touch on moments of real darkness, while somehow managing to be mordant, funny and, ultimately, life-affirming Review Quote Guo is an unsparing noticer. The truthfulness and accuracy of Guos language gives the book mischief and energy. There are shades of Lydia Davis in her carefully etched sentences as she details the ups and downs of the relationship without sentimentality. . . . Along the way, its capacious enough to touch on moments of real darkness, while somehow managing to be mordant, funny and, ultimately, life-affirming Promotional "Headline" A funny and charming new novel from Xiaolu Guo about love, language, displacement and finding our place in the world Details ISBN1529112486 Author Xiaolu Guo Publisher Vintage Publishing Year 2021 ISBN-10 1529112486 ISBN-13 9781529112481 Publication Date 2021-05-06 Language English DEWEY 823.92 Pages 288 UK Release Date 2021-05-06 Format Paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2021-05-06 NZ Release Date 2021-05-06 Translator Erica Segre Birth 1939 Death 1939 Affiliation Harvard University Position Toshiba Professor of Media, Arts, and Sciences Qualifications OBE Imprint Vintage Alternative 9781473574892 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:132575987;

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