The lost and forgotten languages of Shanghai
By: Ruiyan Xu
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9781408802205
Subjects: Aphasic persons; Social life and customs; Americans; Physician and patient; Manners and customs; Married people; Fiction
Description: This is the story about a bilingual aphasia patient, his ability to speak his native language is obliterated in an accident. A sensitive exploration of the power of words and of silence, this book is a wonderfully evocative debut about love and language, duty and passion, in a vibrant modern city of Shanghai.