Im looking for a book advertisement I saw on the London Underground?

Question

The book is about a girl from China or Japan who meets a man from London but I dont remember what it was called! I was in London about a month ago and I saw the advertisements for it everywhere and now that I'm back in the states I want to read it but I forgot the name! Please help!!

Answer 1

I think you mean this one:

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers: A Novel

The cover is red, with a naked woman wrapped in ivy or something like that.

Zhuang is a 23-year-old Chinese language student who has come to London to learn English; she calls herself Z because no one can pronounce her name. When the book begins, she can barely ask for a cup of tea and spends her days looking up new words in her dictionary. Homesick, privacy, and lover are all new concepts for Z.

At the movies one night, Z falls for an Englishman who lives a resolutely bachelor life. When she tells him she’d like to see where he lives, he replies sardonically “be my guest.” Misunderstanding the meaning behind his words, Z moves in a week later. Over the course of a year, Z learns about love and s*x, companionship and passion. She finds a freedom that she hadn’t known in China but she also comes to learn the painful truth that you can learn all the words in the English language and still not understand your lover.