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The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai
Ruiyan Xu
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Description for The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai
Paperback. A moving and atmospheric debut about love and language set in modern-day Shanghai Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 244.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408809952
SKU
KSG0014861
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Ruiyan Xu
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.
Reviews for The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai
`An engrossing novel that will enchant you from beginning to end'
David Ebershoff, author of The 19th Wife
`Beautifully executed and moving'
Sunday Times
`A sensitive and moving exploration of what happens when love is lost in translation'
Marie Claire
`A compassionate and perspicacious examination of the nature of human relationships'
Daily Mail ... Read more
David Ebershoff, author of The 19th Wife
`Beautifully executed and moving'
Sunday Times
`A sensitive and moving exploration of what happens when love is lost in translation'
Marie Claire
`A compassionate and perspicacious examination of the nature of human relationships'
Daily Mail ... Read more