A Lovers Discourse - Xiaolu Guo
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Contemporary, Adults
Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020, I dont believe in love at first sight., I was taken aback. I thought we were definitely in love at first sight., What do you mean? Wasnt 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 Lovers 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 unm
