A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

Résumé : "I on airplaine. I not met you yet. You in future. I no speaking English. I fearing future." The heart of the book is a love story between Z and her English boyfriend, a 44-year-old, ex-anarchist, bisexual vegetarian who lives in Hackney and doesn't like to talk about his feelings. Yes, they have issues. Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself - Westerners cannot pronounce her name) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain... 'I go' is enough to expressing 'I am going to go ...' Really.