That Summer in Provincetown - Volume 119

This story follows three generations of a Vietnamese family as they struggle through major events of the 20th century. From the War of Independence against the French colonial power to the Vietnam War, the novel depicts a family's resilience in the face of tragedy, as told through the voice of a young girl attempting to understand family scandals within an historical context. At the novel's core is the death from AIDS in the early 1980s of the narrator's half French, half Vietnamese cousin Daniel, a beautiful rebel who is stricken down following a summer escapade in Provincetown. His family of three generations of physicians cannot bear to call the disease by its true name. Daniel dies alone in his Montreal hospital room.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Born in Vietnam, Caroline Vu left her native country at the age of 11 After spending several years in a small New England town, she moved to Montreal where she works as a family physician at a community health centre. That Summer in Provincetown is her second novel. Her first novel, Palawan Story, was shortlisted for the Concordia University First Book Prize.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Caroline Vu, Caroline Vu-Nguyen
• Verlag: Guernica Editions
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9781771830355
• ISBN: 978-1-77183-035-5
• Seiten: 200
• Abmessung: 128 mm x 204 mm x 12 mm
• Gewicht: 164 g
• Serien: ESSENTIAL PROSE SERIES; Essential Prose; Essential Prose Series
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur