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echc on "A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers"

echc — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:28:36 +0000

kimmy
As a young child from Denmark, I laughed when ever I heard "praise the Lord".
The word lord meant shit.
I praised this every morning.
Can we not laugh at our differences and accept our differences.
Words are just words. Our hearts belong to everybody.

APayne on "A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers"

APayne — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:07:42 +0000

What a great read this was! I was charmed by the narrator's honesty, warmth, innocence and generosity of spirit towards her misfit 40-something man. Would interest any former TEFL veteran (there are so many out there) for whom these kinds of odd experiences/encounters, after a fashion, become almost predictable and mundane. "Colony", one of the shorter chapters of the book, was really the best example of what Xiaolu Guo can do.

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Xiaolu Guo

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

"Misunderstanding. Free world. Dilemma." A foreigner's first time in London, the dictionary holds all the answers. Read an extract from Xiaolu Guo's first novel written directly in English– a study of language lost and found. Read the rest of this post...