num_pages: 144
description: Une femme voyage  travers le dsordre des souvenirs : l'enfance dans sa cage d'or  Saigon l'arrive du communisme dans le Sud-Vietnam apeur la fuite dans le ventre d'un bateau au large du golfe de Siam l'internement dans un camp de rfugis en Malaisie les premiers frissons dans le froid du Qubec. Rcit entre la guerre et la paix ru dit le vide et le trop-plein l'garement et la beaut. De ce tumulte des incidents tragi-comiques des objets ordinaires mergent comme autant de repres d'un parcours. En voquant un bracelet en acrylique rempli de diamants des bols bleus cercls d'argent ou la puissance d'une odeur d'assouplissant Kim Thy restitue le Vietnam d'hier et d'aujourd'hui avec la matrise d'un grand crivain.A runaway bestseller in Quebec with foreign rights sold to 15 countries around the world Kim Thy's Governor General's Literary Award-winning Ru is a lullaby for Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland.Ru. In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream but also signifies a flow - of tears blood money. Kim Thy's Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the tides of unrest and on to more peaceful waters. In vignettes of exquisite clarity sharp observation and sly wit we are carried along on an unforgettable journey from a palatial residence in Saigon to a crowded and muddy Malaysian refugee camp and onward to a new life in Quebec. There the young girl feels the embrace of a new community and revels in the chance to be part of the American Dream. As an adult the waters become rough again: now a mother of two sons she must learn to shape her love around the younger boy's autism. Moving seamlessly from past to present from history to memory and back again Ru is a book that celebrates life in all its wonder: its moments of beauty and sensuality brutality and sorrow comfort and comedy.
language: French
title: Ru
publisher: Liana Levi