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A lovers discourse8/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Everybody has started to hoard medicines. Otherwise it’s just for puppies and adolescents”. “It’s only real when it’s mixed up with dirt and sweat. The roots are too embedded into the ground”. Yes but once the tree grows older you can’t transplant them again. “Chinese people seem to be very adaptable like their trees “- We Chinese have very vague historical records of everything especially after the Cultural Revolution. But I think an enclosed space with a conventional set up is lifeless”. “Why do you think Home is lifeless? - I don’t think home is lifeless. I thought we were definitely in love at first sight”. I remember you said: ‘I don’t believe in love at first sight’.” “A few years after we moved in together, we had this conversation about love at first sight. Here are a few sample excerpts to contemplate: ( the universal experiences).commitment - romantic- the varied degrees of the spectrums. This small book leaves plenty of room for the readers ![]() Xiaolu grew up in a fishing village with her illiterate grandparents, her parents and brother in Wenling, China. Her books have been translated into 28 languages. “Xiaolu Guo is a Chinese British novelist, memoirist, and film-maker, who explores migration, alienation, memory, personal journeys, feminism translation, and trans national identities”. The styling is unique - poetic & lyrical - with many pages having only a few words. it took another thirty minutes of sitting with a big smile on my face. I certainly didn’t expect to read the entire book in thirty minutes. This book, with it’s gorgeous book cover, was a surprise in many ways. Suffused with a wonderful sense of humour, this intimate and tender novel asks universal questions: what is the meaning of home when we've been uprooted? How can a man and woman be together? And how best to be a woman and a mother? Playing with language and the cultural differences that her narrator encounters as she settles into life in a Britain still reeling from the Brexit vote, Xiaolu Guo shows us how this couple navigate these differences, and their romance, whether on their unmoored houseboat or in a cramped and stifling flat share in east London. She knew she would be lonely, but will her new relationship with the Australian-British-German landscape architect bring her closer to this land she has chosen, will their love give her a home?Ī Lover's Discourse is an exploration of romantic love told through fragments of conversations between the two lovers. Urn:oclc:5188964 Republisher_date 20120616143020 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120615194628 Scanner story of desire, love and language - and the meaning of home - told through conversations between two loversĪ Chinese woman comes to London to start a new life - away from her dead parents, away from her old world. OL1375069W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.67 Pages 246 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0374521611 Urn:lcp:loversdiscoursef00bart:epub:e2bd76e3-ef55-4bea-9367-fd23b1a499d4 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier loversdiscoursef00bart Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t55d9zx1f Isbn 0809066890 Lccn 78007794 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL4720753M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:42:37 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA148208 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Edition 1st American ed. ![]()
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