The Refugees

In The Refugees, 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 captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of immigration. The second piece of fiction by a major new voice, The Refugees is a beautifully written and sharply observed book about the aspirations of those who leave one country for another, and the relationships and desires for self-fulfillment that define our lives.

Product details

• Authors: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nguyen Viet Thanh
• Publisher: Corsair
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781472153784
• ISBN: 978-1-4721-5378-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 124 mm x 196 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary