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A Lover’s Discourse by Xiaolu Guo
On paper A Lover’s Discourse is the type of book that I generally like: we have an unmanned who recounts her relationship to her unmanned ‘lover’βa man she addresses as ‘you’. Our narrator met ‘you’ after moving from China to Britain in 2016. Recently orphaned and feeling somewhat alienated by her new environment the protagonist…
1st pov, 2 STARS, A Lover's Discourse, Adult, ALIENATION, AUSTRALIA, Brexit, China, chinese author, Contemporary, cultural dissonance, dialogue heavy, england, existentialism, female authors, Germany, LITERARY FICTION, LONDON, migration/immigration, navel gazing, published in 2020, read in 2020, ROMANCE, unnamed narrator, Xiaolu Guo
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