The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai
Autor RUIYAN XUen Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 iul 2011
When an explosion reverberates through the Swan Hotel in Shanghai, it is not just shards of glass and rubble that come crashing down. Li Jing and Zhou Meiling find their once-happy marriage rocked to its foundations. For Li Jing, his head pierced by a shard of falling glass, awakens from brain surgery only able to utter the faltering phrases of the English he learnt as a child - a language that Meiling and their young song Pang Pang cannot speak.
When an American neurologist arrives, tasked with teaching Li Jing to speak fluently again, she is as disorientated as her patient in this bewitching, bewildering city. As doctor and patient grow closer, feelings neither of them anticipated begin to take hold. Feelings that Meiling, who must fight to keep both her husband's business and her family afloat, does not need a translator to understand.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781408809952
ISBN-10: 1408809958
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1408809958
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
-For fans of Lost in Translation by Nicole Mones, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo and Yiyun Li's A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (winner of the Guardian First Book Award)
Notă biografică
Ruiyan Xu was born in Shanghai and moved to the USA at the age of ten. She graduated from Brown University and lives in Brooklyn, New York. The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai is her first novel.
Recenzii
‘An engrossing novel that will enchant you from beginning to end'
‘Beautifully executed and moving'
‘A sensitive and moving exploration of what happens when love is lost in translation'
‘A compassionate and perspicacious examination of the nature of human relationships'
‘Beautifully executed and moving'
‘A sensitive and moving exploration of what happens when love is lost in translation'
‘A compassionate and perspicacious examination of the nature of human relationships'
Descriere
A moving and atmospheric debut about love and language set in modern-day Shanghai