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The Refugees

Autor Viet Thanh Nguyen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 feb 2017

The Refugees este o colecție de povești ce cuprind o perioadă de douăzeci de ani și pun întrebări despre fenomenul imigrării, despre identitate, dragoste și familie.
Autorul Viet Thanh Nguyen propune o comparație între o lume nostalgică a locului natal și a unei case adoptive. Aceste metafore sunt pentru țările care s-au aflat într-un război sângeros în anii 60': SUA și Vietnam. 
The Refugees este o frumoasă ficțiune despre aspirațiile celor care își părăsesc țările de origine în speranța găsirii unui loc mai bun. 

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780802126399
ISBN-10: 0802126391
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Colecția Grove Press

Descriere scurtă

Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer was one of the most widely and highly praised novels of 2015, the winner not only of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but also the Center for Fiction Debut Novel Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, the ALA Carnegie Medal for Fiction, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and the California Book Award for First Fiction. Nguyen's next fiction book, The Refugees, is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family.

With the coruscating gaze that informed The Sympathizer, in The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. 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. The second piece 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.

Recenzii

Praise for The Sympathizer:

Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Winner of the 2016 Edgar Award for Best First Novel
Winner of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
Winner of the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
Winner of the 2015-2016 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (Adult Fiction)
Finalist for the 2016 PEN/Faulkner Award
Finalist for the 2016 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
Finalist for the 2016 Medici Book Club Prize
Finalist for the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Mystery/Thriller)
Finalist for the 2016 ABA Indies Choice/E.B. White Read-Aloud Award (Book of the Year, Adult Fiction)
Finalist for the 2016 California Book Award for First Fiction
Named a Best Book of the Year on more than twenty lists, including the New York Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post


“A magnificent feat of storytelling. The Sympathizer is a novel of literary, historical, and political importance.”—Maxine Hong Kingston

“Extraordinary . . . Surely a new classic of war fiction.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post

“A dark, funny—and Vietnamese—look at the Vietnam War . . . rife with insight and criticism.”—NPR “All Things Considered”

“So skillfully and brilliantly executed that I cannot believe this is a first novel.”—John Warner, Chicago Tribune

“Welcome a unique new voice to the literary chorus . . . dazzles on all fronts.”—Tricia Springstubb, Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Intelligent, relentlessly paced and savagely funny.”—Wall Street Journal

“A very special, important, brilliant novel . . . I don’t say brilliant about a lot of books, but this is a brilliant book . . . A fabulous book . . . that everyone should read.”—Nancy Pearl

“Tremendously funny . . . reminded me of how big books can be.”—Akhil Sharma, Guardian

“[A] marvelously worldly debut novel, redolent of Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh.”—Laura Miller, Slate

“Nguyen does nothing less than turn the familiar Western narratives of the Vietnam War on their heads . . . that rare novel that will make you see the world just a bit differently.”—James Grainger, Toronto Star

Notă biografică

Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. He is the author of The Sympathizer, which was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Edgar Award for First Novel, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and the California Book Award for First Fiction. He is also the author of the nonfiction books Nothing Ever Dies and Race and Resistance. He teaches English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.

Descriere

Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer was one of the most widely and highly praised novels of 2015, the winner not only of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but also the Center for Fiction Debut Novel Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, the ALA Carnegie Medal for Fiction, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and the California Book Award for First Fiction. Nguyen's next fiction book, The Refugees, is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family.

With the coruscating gaze that informed The Sympathizer, in The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. 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. The second piece 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.