"I loved this book and can't stop talking about it. . . . Transcendent." Carolyn See, The Washington Post
In the tradition ofBalzacand theLittle Chinese Seamstress, Wang Gang'sEnglish is a captivating coming-of-age novel about the power of language to launch a journey of self-discovery. When a new teacher comes to school a tall, elegantly dressed man from Shanghai carrying an English dictionary under his arm twelve-year-old Love Liu turns away from Chairman Mao's little red book and toward the teacher's big blue book for answers to his most...