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Start giftingA Lover's Discourse
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“An episodic novel about two lovers, their growing affair, and the conversations that ultimately end in discourse. Reflecting on language & cultural differences, this story is beautiful, witty, and perceptive. If you enjoy people-watching, you will love eavesdropping on this couple's messy relationship.”
— Courtney • Auburn Oil Co. Booksellers
Bookseller recommendation
“An episodic novel about two lovers, their growing affair, and the conversations that ultimately end in discourse. Reflecting on language & cultural differences, this story is beautiful, witty, and perceptive. If you enjoy people-watching, you will love eavesdropping on this couple's messy relationship.”
— Courtney • Auburn Oil Co. Booksellers
Summary
"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.