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36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le
Category: Gift
Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem, says Le, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, is ‘the book I need to write. The b ...Show more
On David Malouf: Writers on Writers by Nam Le
Category: Languages and Reference
'[on reading Malouf for the first time] Here was a very-much-alive half-Lebanese (from provincial Brisbane, no less) producing English-language writing of the first order. And that in prose, not poetry. The poetry was in the prose; it stayed and sprung its rhythms, chorded its ideas, concentrated its im ...Show more
THE BOAT by LE NAM
Category: Fiction
In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world. The Boat takes us from a tourist in Tehran to a teenage hit man in Colombia; from an aging New York artist to a boy comi ...Show more
The Boat by Nam Le
Category: Fiction
A dazzling, emotionally riveting debut collection: the seven stories in Nam Le's The Boat take us across the globe as he enters the hearts and minds of characters from all over the world.Whether Nam Le is conjuring the story of 14-year-old Juan, a hit man in Colombia; or an aging painter mourning the de ...Show more
The Boat by NAM LE
Category: Fiction
Nam is the child of Vietnamese immigrants: the first and last of the stories in The Boat address that savage experience, but in between, Le's stunning imagination lays claim to the full range of human experience, across the globe: from a tourist in Tehran to a child- assassin in Cartagena; from an aging ...Show more
The Boat - Penguin Australian Classics by Nam Le
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
The Boat takes us from a tourist in Tehran to a teenage hit man in Colombia; from an aging New York artist to a boy coming of age in a small Victorian fishing town; from the city of Hiroshima just before the bomb is dropped to the haunting waste of the South China Sea in the wake of another war. Each st ...Show more
The Boat (short stories) by Nam Le
Category: Fiction
In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world. The Boat takes us from a tourist in Tehran to a teenage hit man in Colombia; from an ageing New York artist to a boy com ...Show more
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