The Refugees

Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Refugees
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Country
Published
28 June 2017
Pages
257
ISBN
9781432839024

The Refugees

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut The Sympathizer won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and became one of the most acclaimed novels of recent years, its author recognized as an important contemporary writer and thinker. His beautiful and deeply moving new book, The Refugees, is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years. In these powerful stories set in both Vietnam and America, Nguyen paints a vivid portrait of the experience of people leading lives between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth.

With the same incisiveness as in The Sympathizer, in The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to the hopes and expectations of people making life-changing decisions to leave one country for another, and the rifts in identity, loyalties, romantic relationships, and family that accompany relocation. 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 migration.

The second work of fiction by a major new voice in American letters, 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.

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