Anam

Born to a Vietnamese family based in Melbourne, the narrator is haunted by the story of his grandfather whose ten-year imprisonment by the Communist government in Vietnam''s notorious Chi Hoa prison looms large over his own place in the world and his choice to become a human rights lawyer. As he oscillates between identities of his Australian upbringing and his Vietnamese heritage, it is the death of his grandfather in a Parisian suburb and the birth of his daughter that crystalise some of the strands that have shaped his life and thinking: ''I will have learnt what we pass on to our children - what we give them, even as we wash away the blood and muck with which they arrived.'' Moving from 1930s Hanoi through a series of never-ending wars and displacements to Saigon, Paris, Melbourne and Cambridge, this is a novel about memory and inheritance, colonialism and belonging, home and exile. Andre Dao''s Anam blends fiction and essay, theory and everyday life to imagine that which has been repressed, left out, and forgotten by archives and by families. As the grandson sifts through letters, photographs, government documents and memories, he has his own family to think about: a partner and an infant daughter. Is there a way to remember the past that creates a future for them as well? Or does coming home always involve a certain amount of forgetting?

Bericht

A profound meditation on forgiveness and forgetting . . . Dao's extraordinary debut novel combines fiction and history to chronicle his Vietnamese grandparents' traumatic life. The Observer

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Andre Dao, André Dao
• Verlag: Picador Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahren
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 17.08.2023
• EAN: 9781529094701
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-9470-1
• Seiten: 352
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 234 mm x 30 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Märchen, Sagen, Legenden; Melbourne, FICTION / War & Military, Sagas, Western Australia, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, c 1955 to c 1975 (Vietnam War period), c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), FICTION / Own Voices, FICTION / World Literature / Southeast Asia