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The Boat: Limited Hardcover Edition

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In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world.

The Boat takes us from a tourist in Tehran to a teenage hit man in Columbia; from an aging New York artist to a boy coming of age in a small Victorian fishing town; from the city of Hiroshima just before the bomb is dropped to the haunting waste of the South China Sea in the wake of another war.

Each story uncovers a raw human truth. Each story is absorbing and fully realised as a novel. Together, the make up a collection of astonishing diversity and achievement.

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The Boat: Limited Hardcover Edition
Nam Le

$29.95 (Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton )

In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world.

The Boat takes us from a tourist in ... More »

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Nam Le

The Boat
Nam Le

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction 2009.

'The Boat raises the bar for Australian writing.'

PETER CRAVEN, Heat



'Nam Le is . . . a distributor of the peace.



'Consider the subjects of his stories: a... More »

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The Boat
Nam Le

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton )

The Boat will take you everywhere.

In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world.

T... More »

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The Boat
Nam Le

$54.95 (Compact disc / Louis Braille Audio )

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The Boat: Limited Hardcover Edition
Nam Le

$29.95 (Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton )

In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world.

The Boat takes us from a tourist in ... More »



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