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The refugees / Viet Thanh Nguyen

By:

Nguyen, Viet Thanh, (1971 -)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Grove Press , 2017Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover editionDescription: 209 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780802126399

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Short stories

DDC classification:

FIC NGU

LOC classification:

PS3614.G97 A6 2017

Contents:

Black-eyed women -- The other man -- War years -- The transplant -- I'd love you to want me -- The Americans -- Someone else besides you -- Fatherland.

Summary: Nguyen's book, The Refugees, is a collection of stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family. 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC NGU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		000160

Black-eyed women -- The other man -- War years -- The transplant -- I'd love you to want me -- The Americans -- Someone else besides you -- Fatherland.

Nguyen's book, The Refugees, is a collection of stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family. 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.

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