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The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai

by Ruiyan Xu
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The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai is Ruiyan Xu's dazzling debut novel about the power of love and language...
Li Jing, a successful, happily married businessman, is dining at a grand hotel in Shanghai when a gas explosion shatters the building. A shard of glass neatly pierces Li Jing's forehead—obliterating his ability to speak Chinese. The only words that emerge from his mouth are faltering phrases of the English he spoke as a child growing up in Virginia. Suddenly Li Jing finds himself unable to communicate with his wife, Meiling, whom he once courted with beautiful words, as she struggles to keep his business afloat and maintain a brave face for their son. The family turns to an American neurologist, Rosalyn Neal, who is as lost as Li Jing—whom she calls James—in this bewitching, bewildering city, where the two form a bond that Meiling does not need a translator to understand.

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Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

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  • Release date: October 12, 2010

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  • ISBN: 9781429942645
  • Release date: October 12, 2010

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  • ISBN: 9781429942645
  • File size: 392 KB
  • Release date: October 12, 2010
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The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai is Ruiyan Xu's dazzling debut novel about the power of love and language...
Li Jing, a successful, happily married businessman, is dining at a grand hotel in Shanghai when a gas explosion shatters the building. A shard of glass neatly pierces Li Jing's forehead—obliterating his ability to speak Chinese. The only words that emerge from his mouth are faltering phrases of the English he spoke as a child growing up in Virginia. Suddenly Li Jing finds himself unable to communicate with his wife, Meiling, whom he once courted with beautiful words, as she struggles to keep his business afloat and maintain a brave face for their son. The family turns to an American neurologist, Rosalyn Neal, who is as lost as Li Jing—whom she calls James—in this bewitching, bewildering city, where the two form a bond that Meiling does not need a translator to understand.

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Fiction Literature