“This is the story of Chinese Zhuang, 23 years old, who has come to live in London for a year to study English. Written in broken English, her troubles are easy to relate to, and yet the differences between East and West are always present. At first she feels very alone, and then she meets an interesting Englishman...
I thought the broken English might become irritating after a while, but it did not, it really became the voice of Zhuang for me - and of course, as she becomes better at it, it gets easier to follow too.
The plot could easily be one for a chick-lit book, but the juxtaposition of the values and expectations of what life should/could be, of Chinese Zhuang and her English lover make it a lot more interesting than that.
I liked it.”
mjacobs wrote this review Tuesday, November 18 2008.
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