This story follows “Z”, a newly arrived immigrant from China, beginning with her one year long stay in London, where she will learn English to aid her with her job. This book conveys with precision the utter isolation and loneliness that a human can feel when in a strange place, with no easy way ...
Sometimes I get this nagging suspicion that there's a greater conspiracy at work to make women writers all over the world feel unloved and unappreciated. *cough* V.S. Naipaul *cough* There's a deliberateness in the way most fiction authored by women is either labelled 'chick lit' and dismissed ri...