Gangster We Are All Looking For A Novel

Name: Gangster We Are All Looking For A Novel
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ISBN: 9780375400186

ISBN-10: 0375400184

ISBN-13: 9780375400186

Edition: 2003

Authors: Le Thi Diem Thuy

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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…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/6/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English