The lost and forgotten languages of Shanghai
By: Riuyan Xu
Edition: 1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780312614157
Subjects: Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Americans; Neurologists; Brain damage; Patients; Fiction
Description: A happy and successful businessman, dining in a Shanghai hotel, is badly injured by a gas explosion in the building. In the aftermath, the formerly bilingual Li Jin is only able to speak the faltering phrases of the English that he spoke as a child growing up in the United States, and is unable to communicate in Chinese with his wife. The family turns to an American neurologist, and she and Li Jing form a bond that does not need a translator to understand.
Notes: "Reading group gold."