Name: Ru: A Novel (en Inglés)
Price: 20.80 EUR
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Author: Thúy, Kim
ISBN: 9781608198986

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Kim Thúy

Editorial

Bloomsbury USA

Año

2012

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

141

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.0 x 14.2 x 1.0 cm

Peso

0.15 kg.

ISBN

1608198987

ISBN13

9781608198986

N° edición

Categorías

Grupos étnicos, indígenas, culturas y tribus
Ficción literaria
Ficción biográfica

Ru: A Novel (en Inglés)

Kim Thúy (Autor) · Bloomsbury USA · Tapa Blanda

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Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for FictionWinner of 2015 Canada Reads PrizeWinner of Grand Prix littéraire ArchambaultFinalist for the 2012 Soctiabank Giller PrizeFinalist for the 2018 New Academy Prize in Literature Longlisted for the 2014 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize. At ten years old, Kim Thúy fled Vietnam on a boat with her family, leaving behind a grand house and the many less tangible riches of their home country: the ponds of lotus blossoms, the songs of soup-vendors. The family arrived in Quebec, where they found clothes at the flea market, and mattresses with actual fleas. Kim learned French and English, and as she grew older, seized what opportunities an immigrant could; she put herself through school picking vegetables and sewing clothes, worked as a lawyer and interpreter, and later as a restaurateur. She was married and a mother when the urge to write struck her, and she found herself scribbling words at every opportunity - pulling out her notebook at stoplights and missing the change to green. The story emerging was one of a Vietnamese émigré on a boat to an unknown future: her own story fictionalized and crafted into a stunning novel. The novel's title, Ru, has meaning in both Kim's native and adoptive languages: in Vietnamese, ru is a lullaby; in French, a stream. And it provides the perfect name for this slim yet potent novel. With prose that soothes and sings, Ru weaves through time, flows and transports: a river of sensuous memories gathering power. It's a classic immigrant story told in a breathtaking new way.