A Lover's Discourse, Xiaolu GuoA funny and charming new novel from Xiaolu Guo about love, language, displacement and finding our place in the world 'A fragmentary meditation on the nature of love' Guardian A Chinese woman comes to post Brexit London to start over 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 their future together. Playing with

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a lover of seafood

points out in his illuminating introduction

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the Balkans and the War at Sea to the offensives of 1918 and the state of Europe after the war

and culture to broader investigations of power

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