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Language: Vintage Minis

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Language: Vintage Minis
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Xiaolu Guo
SeriesVintage Minis
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:112
Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 110
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781784872700
ClassificationsDewey:400
Audience
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Publishing Details

Publisher Vintage Publishing
Imprint Vintage Classics
Publication Date 8 June 2017
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Vintage Minis bring you the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between 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 turns to living. And they say that the best way to learn a language is to fall in love with a native speaker. Selected from the book A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series- Babies by Anne Enright Depression by William Styron Race by Toni Morrison Home by Salman Rushdie

Author Biography

Xiaolu Guo was born in south China. She studied at the Beijing Film Academy and published six books in China before moving to London in 2002. Her books include Village of Stone which was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth which was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and I Am China which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her recent memoir, Once Upon a Time in the East, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, the Jhalak Prize and the Rathbones Folio Award 2018, and was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. In 2013 Xiaolu was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. She has directed several award-winning films including She, A Chinese, and documentaries about China and Britain. She was a judge for the Booker Prize in 2019, and is currently a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York.

Reviews

An utterly captivating, and disorientating, journey both through language and through love * Independent * Imagine our joy when Vintage announced that it is publishing a collection of easily digestible books from the world's most celebrated writers on the experiences that make us human... They look good and read well. That's win/win in our book. * Stylist *