A Lover's Discourse
Written by Xiaolu Guo
Narrated by Cindy Kay
4/5
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About this audiobook
I was taken aback. I thought we were definitely in love at first sight.
"What do you mean? Wasn't it clear the moment you picked the elderflowers by the park and we looked at each other? Or was it in that book club?"
You gave me a damp smile, as if my confusion proved that you were right.
A Chinese woman moves from Beijing to London for a doctoral program-and to begin a new life-just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape architect and the two begin to build a life together.
A Lover's Discourse is an exploration of romantic love told through fragments of conversations between the two lovers. Playing with language and the cultural differences that her narrator encounters as she settles into life in post-Brexit vote Britain, the lovers must navigate their differences and their romance, whether on their unmoored houseboat or in a cramped and stifling apartment in east London. Suffused with a wonderful sense of humor, this intimate and tender novel asks what it means to make a home and a family in a new land.
Editor's Note
Love in the time of Brexit…
Set in London during the Brexit campaign when outsiders weren’t always welcomed, a Chinese grad student and an Australian landscape architect fall for each other in this tender love story with a real sense of humor. Lit Hub (which named “A Lover’s Discourse” one of the most anticipated books for the second half of 2020) writes: “[Xiaolu Guo] gives her careful eye and her wonderful ear for dialogue to this … exploration of what it looks, sounds, and feels like to merge two cultures and two lives together.”
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A very fascinating read. Such an absorbing and heartening story.