The Refugees
- Kategoria:
- literatura piękna
- Wydawnictwo:
- Corsair
- Data wydania:
- 2017-01-01
- Data 1. wydania:
- 2017-01-01
- Liczba stron:
- 209
- Czas czytania
- 3 godz. 29 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 9781472152558
- Tagi:
- migracja
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.