PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780802149527
- Categories 23-04, BX, BXOS, F LIT, Fiction, H/C, Literary Fiction
- Author(s) Guo, Xiaolu
- Publisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- Pages 271
- Format Hardcover
- Dimensions 21cm x 14cm x 3cm
- Weight 0.431 kg
product description
A Chinese woman moves from Beijing to London for a doctoral program--and to begin a new life--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 a life together.
A Lover's Discourse is an exploration of romantic love told through fragments of conversations between the two lovers. Playing with language and the cultural differences that her narrator encounters as she settles into life in post-Brexit vote Britain, the lovers must navigate their differences and their romance, whether on their unmoored houseboat or in a cramped and stifling apartment in east London. Suffused with a wonderful sense of humor, this intimate and tender novel asks what it means to make a home and a family in a new land.