The Refugees

Name: The Refugees
Brand: Little Brown Book Group
SKU: 9781472153784
Price: 13.59 EUR
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By (author): Viet Thanh Nguyen

In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her for a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of immigration. The second piece of fiction by a major new voice, The Refugees is a beautifully written and sharply observed book about the aspirations of those who leave one country for another, and the relationships and desires for self-fulfillment that define our lives. See more

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Weight: 215g
Dimensions: 124 x 196mm
Publication Date: 01 Feb 2018
Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781472153784

About Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the short story collection The Refugees and the novel The Sympathizer. The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction a Gold Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards and the Asian/Pacific American Literature Award from the Asian/Pacific American Librarian Association. His other books are Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction) and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.