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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers: A Novel

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A very unique book and reading experience! Highly recommended for a reader seeking something out of the ordinary. The author creates excellent character development through the first person perspective, that demonstrates universal experiences of human emotion.

This book is about a young Chinese woman who has come to England to learn English. The book is written by her, complete with the quickly improving bad grammar of a Chinese woman learning English. In this regard, the writing is quite clever and it's a fairly easy book to read once you get into it. The story of the book however is quite odd - it's a romance between her and a strange and frankly quite creepy English man, and it is filled with sex, and I don't know what to make of that. It's not that I am opposed to sex in literature, but it was odd reading this woman's insights into Western society in broken English, and then a two page long broken English description of her getting laid.

I do have to recommend it however, if only for the writing style, which is probably like nothing you have ever read.