{"product_id":"a-lovers-discourse-by-xiaolu-guo-9781529112481","title":"A Lover's Discourse","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA funny and charming new novel from Xiaolu Guo about love, language, displacement and finding our place in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Lover's Discourse\u003c\/em\u003e is described as 'a fragmentary meditation on the nature of love' by the Guardian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Chinese woman comes to post-Brexit London to start over, just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIsolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape architect, and the two begin to build their future together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePlaying with language and the cultural differences that our narrator encounters as she settles into her new life, the lovers must navigate their differences and their romance, whether on their unmoored houseboat or in a cramped apartment in east London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSuffused with a wonderful sense of humour, this intimate novel asks what it means to make a home and a family in a new land.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46529344405740,"sku":"9781529112481","price":22.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11546533482732.jpg?v=1749211776","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/a-lovers-discourse-by-xiaolu-guo-9781529112481","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}