The lost and forgotten languages of Shanghai

By Ruiyan Xu

Subjects: Married people, fiction, Physician and patient, Fiction, Married people, Americans, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Aphasic persons, Shanghai (china), fiction, Fiction, romance, general

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.