A Lover's Discourse - Xiaolu Guo

Shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize 2020

A Chinese student moves to London to begin again, there she meets a landscape architect and they start to build a new life together.

Moving between a cramped flat in east London and an unmoored houseboat the narrator explores cultural chasms with the consistent background noise of an increasingly hostile Britain.
Xiaolu Guo’s delicate novel asks what it means to create a family and a place to belong in a new land.