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Anam

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By (author): André Dao

A profound meditation on forgiveness and forgetting . . . Daos extraordinary debut novel combines fiction and history to chronicle his Vietnamese grandparents traumatic life. The Observer

Moving from 1930s Hanoi through wars and displacements to Saigon, Paris, Melbourne and Cambridge, a deeply moving novel of memory and inheritance, colonialism and belonging, exile and home.


Born to a Vietnamese family based in Melbourne, the narrator is haunted by the story of his grandfather whose ten-year imprisonment by the Communist government in Vietnams notorious Chi Hoa prison looms large over his own place in the world and his choice to become a human rights lawyer. As he oscillates between identities of his Australian upbringing and his Vietnamese heritage, it is the death of his grandfather in a Parisian suburb and the birth of his daughter that crystallize the strands of thought that have shaped his life.

André Daos Anam blends fiction and essay, theory and everyday life to imagine that which has been repressed, left out, and forgotten by archives and by families. As the grandson sifts through letters, photographs, government documents and memories, he has his own family to think about: a partner and an infant daughter. Is there a way to remember the past that creates a future for them as well? Or does coming home always involve a certain amount of forgetting?

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Product Details
  • Weight: 434g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Aug 2023
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781529094701

About André Dao

André Dao is a Melbourne-based writer editor and artist. His debut novel Anam won the 2021 Victorian Premiers Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. His writing has appeared in Meanjin Sydney Review of Books The Saturday Paper Asia Literary Review and elsewhere. In 2015 he was selected as one of the Melbourne Writers Festivals 30 Best Writers under 30.

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