By: Xiaolu Guo
This book is all about a twenty three year old Chinese girl named Zhuang or Z as she calls herself was sent to west, London to be precise by her parents to learn English for year. With hope she will be back with new knowledge and language for her own family good. Her journey begun and she already got trouble after a few minute arrives at Heathlow Airport. Having a culture shocked coz the different way of life, mostly confusing and hard to adapt. And always misinterpret the meaning of act and language. Luckily she met a Good Samaritan, an Englishman after a few days been there. But it is all because of her misunderstanding of what he said, ‘be my guest’. Very funny though. From that day, she learned from him and spent their time together in little, shabby shack. He is so different; he doesn’t like the modernization and the changing even the ‘new’ thing, not like her at all. She always confuse with him and always need explanation and sometimes them arguing to each other coz different opinions. But then, everything will be normal as nothing happened earlier. Later, she found she was fall in love with him. But him, he was homosexual, or may be bisexual. And there is so many challenging in their way of love. Captivating, charming and bittersweet… the clash of east meets west.
In this book, the writer purposely using broken language and no need to struggle to understand the story, mostly beginner like me.
This is my first posting about the novel thing. hope i can keep it up later when i have nothing to write.. or when i in lazy mood... brilliant!! haha~~ whatever.
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