I start to read again….Actually reading is not my hobby but sometime I love to stand in the book shop and just to flip over the magazine. I can’t really bother to buy them, I prefer to live in a simple life….adding too much stuffs in my room are merely to adding burden on my shoulder. Recently, I accidently found one good book in the book shop. And I start reading the back cover of the book with lots of comments from fellow writers and newspapers. Yes, this is the one that i would love to read, I told myself.
The book title is ‘The concise Chinese-English dictionary’ and the author is Xiaolu Guo, a young bright Chinese female author from China who just started to write English novel. The story is simple, funny, wise and hilarious and it begin with a Chinese girl named ‘Zhuang’ or miss ‘Z’ come to study English language in UK. She pointed out her confusion on east and west cultures, make her own comment on many different views of open minded and civilized world of West Country. She questioned why peoples can get ‘porn’ magazine in any book shop in London, but hardly see them reading it in the cafe. And she is the one who enjoy reading the porn magazine inside the cafe . She questioned why people in the east country working hard to make a living but people in the west always planning for holiday and having a ‘TEA BREAK’.
Most of the chapters cover the love story between she and her English man, a bachelor with deep socialist thinking and influences. He likes to collect the old things and prefer to live in village rather than London city. A man she could fall for his soul and die for. A man with a complicated background who had sex experience with men and women. A man who is doubt or wonder if another person can fix into his life after being single for so long. A year of study in UK, she learns a lot, stealing the language and the culture of the west. As time go by, her loves was getting deeper and deeper. The guy could not decide what he would like for his future life, he only live in present and not really planning to form a family in future. And at last, the relationship was fading away with Zhuang forcing to go back to China to fulfill her mission for her parents. The story was touching and beautiful. It is worth to buy and read it on your own.
Deep in my heart I ask myself 