The refugees
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice
Publisher: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781432839024
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Large type books; Immigrants; Refugees; Vietnamese; Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: The Refugees is a collection of stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family. 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 testament to the dreams and hardships of immigration.
Table of contents: title: Black-eyed women --; title: The other man --; title: War years --; title: The transplant --; title: I'd love you to want me --; title: The Americans --; title: Someone else besides you --; title: Fatherland.