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    Grove Atlantic
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    kobvindex_ZLB34113979
    ISBN: 9780802189356
    Content: " 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."
    Content: Rezension(1): " 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." Rezension(2): " Maxine Hong Kingston :“, magnificent feat of storytelling. The Sympathizer is a novel of literary, historical, and political importance." Rezension(3): " Ron Charles, Washington Post :“,xtraordinary . Surely a new classic of war fiction." Rezension(4): " John Warner, Chicago Tribune :“,o skillfully and brilliantly executed that I cannot believe this is a first novel." Rezension(5): " Tricia Springstubb, Cleveland Plain Dealer :“,elcome a unique new voice to the literary chorus . dazzles on all fronts." Rezension(6): " Wall Street Journal :“,ntelligent, relentlessly paced and savagely funny." Rezension(7): " Nancy Pearl :“, 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." Rezension(8): " Akhil Sharma, Guardian :“,remendously funny . reminded me of how big books can be." Rezension(9): " Laura Miller, Slate :"
    Language: English
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