Kim Thuy

Ru

Übersetzung: Fischman, Sheila

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow - of tears, blood, and money. This book presents a lullaby of Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Clerkenwell Press / Profile Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 192g
• ISBN-13: 9781846685484
• ISBN-10: 1846685486
• Artikelnr.: 34457417

Autorenporträt

im Thúy has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer and restaurant owner. In 2010 Thúy won the Governor General's Award for French language fiction. She lives in Montreal, where she devotes herself to writing.

Rezensionen

Kim Thúy writes with equal delicacy and candor about a childhood marked by horrifying brutality, and the pleasures of ordinary peace. A brave and moving book, bringing lucid insight both to the costs of violence, and elusive processes of psychic survival. Eva Hoffman