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Title: The Gangster We Are All Looking For
Author: Le Thi Diem Thuy
ISBN: 9780375400186
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 176
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: A momentous literary debut: the life of a Vietnamese family in America luminously observed through the knowing eyes of a child.
In 1978 six refugees-- a girl, her father, and four " uncles" -- are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the child's imagination, the world of itchy dresses and run-down apartments is transmuted into an unearthly realm: she sees everything intensely, hears the distress calls of inanimate objects and waits for her mother to join her.
But life loses none of its strangeness when the family is reunited. As the girl grows, her matter-of-fact innocence eddies increasingly around opaque and ghostly traumas: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland, the memory of a brother who drowned and, most inescapable, her father's hopeless rage for a father's order.
In The Gangster We Are All Looking For, le thi diem thu y has illuminated a world of great beauty and enormous sorrows. Here is an authentically original story of finding one's place and voice in America.
Author: Le Thi Diem Thuy
ISBN: 9780375400186
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 176
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: A momentous literary debut: the life of a Vietnamese family in America luminously observed through the knowing eyes of a child.
In 1978 six refugees-- a girl, her father, and four " uncles" -- are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the child's imagination, the world of itchy dresses and run-down apartments is transmuted into an unearthly realm: she sees everything intensely, hears the distress calls of inanimate objects and waits for her mother to join her.
But life loses none of its strangeness when the family is reunited. As the girl grows, her matter-of-fact innocence eddies increasingly around opaque and ghostly traumas: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland, the memory of a brother who drowned and, most inescapable, her father's hopeless rage for a father's order.
In The Gangster We Are All Looking For, le thi diem thu y has illuminated a world of great beauty and enormous sorrows. Here is an authentically original story of finding one's place and voice in America.
