Novel in Broken English Is On Orange Shortlist

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A WRITER raised in a Chinese fishing village has been shortlisted for the Pounds 30,000 Orange Prize for women's fiction.

Xiaolu Guo, 33, wrote her firstnovel in English only five years after moving to London.

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Novel in Broken English Is On Orange Shortlist

She is up against five other writers, including Jane Harris, a firsttime novelist who also lives in the capital.

Guo's novel, A Concise Chinese- English Dictionary For Lovers, is a romantic comedy telling in deliberately bad English the story of a Chinese woman sent to London by her parents to study.

Lodged with a Chinese family in Tottenham, the heroine calls herself Z because English people can't pronounce her name and ...

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