lê thị diễm thúy
Auteur de The Gangster We Are All Looking For
A propos de l'auteur
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) Author's name in Vietnamese word order is Lê Thị Diễm Thúy, where Le is the author's family name. Per Wikipedia, author's pen name is all lower case, lê thị diễm thúy.
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Œuvres de lê thị diễm thúy
The Gangster We Are All Looking For 1 exemplaire
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- lê thị diễm thúy
- Autres noms
- Lê Thi Diem Thúy
Le, Thi Diem Thuy
Lê Thị Diễm Thúy - Date de naissance
- 1972-01-12
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Vietnam (birth)
USA (naturalized) - Lieu de naissance
- Phan Thiết, Vietnam
- Études
- Hampshire College
- Notice de désambigüisation
- Author's name in Vietnamese word order is Lê Thị Diễm Thúy, where Le is the author's family name. Per Wikipedia, author's pen name is all lower case, lê thị diễm thúy.
Membres
Critiques
Recollections and observations of life in America through the eyes of a young Vietnamese refugee girl. She lives first with her father and four "uncles" in San Diego; later her mother joins them. All poetic description but no action, no forward motion.
A moving and somewhat depressing story about home, cultural identity, assimilation, and cultural values. A young girl and her father come to the United States as one of many Vietnamese "boat people" in the 1970s. Her mother joins them later and the family plods from apartment to apartment trying, it seems, constantly to start a life in this foreign place. The southern California in which the family finds itself is glossy and bright, but shallow and meaningless. And the memories of home become increasingly bittersweet.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Aussi par
- 8
- Membres
- 439
- Popularité
- #55,772
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 9
- ISBN
- 13
- Langues
- 3
In itself the story is nice. I think it is (a bit) autobiographical, considering the author's background, but maybe I'm wrong.
It is a strange stry, but when you realize that it is being told by a child's voice and the world is seen through a child's eyes, then it starts making sense. All in all I'm glad to have read it. Interesting books that are fiction are quite rare here.… (plus d'informations)