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    A Lover's Discourse

    By Xiaolu Guo

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    A story of desire, love, language, and the meaning of home—told through conversations between a Chinese graduate student and an Australian man, falling in love against the backdrop of Brexit London.

    “I don’t believe in love at first sight.”

    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.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGrove Press
    Release dateOct 13, 2020
    ISBN9780802149541

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