- Immigrants, Fiction, Canadian fiction, Refugees
A runaway bestseller in Quebec, with foreign rights sold to 15 countries around the world, Kim Thuy's Governor General's Literary Award-winning RU is a lullaby for Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland. In vignettes of exquisite clarity, sharp observation and sly wit, we are carried along on an unforgettable journey from a palatial residence in Saigon to a crowded and muddy Malaysian refugee camp, and onward to a new life in Quebec.
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Prestige, character-led, meticulous and grave.
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- rawmeticulous
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Kim Thúy
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 143
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA, Brand: Liana Levi, Les Éditions internationales Alain Stanké
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- Spanish, French, English
- ISBN
- 9781608198986
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