Boat

Name: Boat
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ISBN: 9780307268082

ISBN-10: 030726808X

ISBN-13: 9780307268082

Edition: 2008

Authors: Nam Le

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A stunningly inventive, deeply moving fiction debut: stories that take us from the slums of Colombia to the streets of Tehran; from New York City to Iowa City; from a tiny fishing village in Australia to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea, in a masterly display of literary virtuosity and feeling. In the magnificent opening story, 0;Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice,1; a young writer is urged by his friends to mine his father7;s experiences in Vietnam-and what seems at first a satire of turning one7;s life into literary commerce becomes a transcendent exploration of homeland, and the ties between father and son. 0;Cartagena1; provides a visceral glimpse…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/13/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



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Cartagena


Meeting Elise


Halflead Bay


Hiroshima


Tehran Calling


The Boat