The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen From the author of The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Refugees is the second piece of fiction from a powerful voice in American letters, praised as "beautiful and heartrending" (Joyce Carol Oates, New Yorker), "terrific" (Chicago Tribune), and "an important and incisive book" (Washington Post) FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description With the same incisiveness as in The Sympathizer, in The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to the hopes and expectations of people making life-changing decisions to leave one country for another, and the rifts in identity, loyalties, romantic relationships, and family that accompany relocation. 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 migration.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. Author Biography Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. He is the author of The Sympathizer, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Edgar Award for First Novel, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, the California Book Award for First Fiction, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of the nonfiction books Nothing Ever Dies, a finalist for the National Book Award, and Race and Resistance. The Aerol Arnold Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, he lives in Los Angeles. Review Praise for The Refugees:A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 2017Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, BuzzFeed, Electric Literature, Chicago Public Library, National Post, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage, and GoodreadsAsian Pacific American Librarians Association Honor AwardFinalist for the California Book Awards (Fiction)Nominated for the Bookish Awards (Best Short Story Collection)Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary PrizeNamed One of 100 Must-Read Contemporary Short Story Collections by Book RiotAn Indie Next Selection"Stories about people poised between their devastated homeland and their affluent adopted country . . . Viet Thanh Nguyen [is] one of our great chroniclers of displacement . . . beautiful and heartrending . . . Nguyens narrative style—restrained, spare, avoiding metaphor or the syntactical virtuosity on display in every paragraph of The Sympathizer—is well suited for portraying tentative states . . . all Nguyens fiction is pervaded by a shared intensity of vision, by stinging perceptions that drift like windblown ashes." —Joyce Carol Oates, New Yorker"These stories of Vietnamese refugees cast a lingering spell . . . [A] superb new collection . . . The collections subtle, attentive prose and straightforward narrative style perfectly suit the low-profile civilian lives it explores . . . With the volume turned down, we lean in more closely, listening beyond what the refugees say to step into their skins." —New York Times Book Review"A beautiful collection that deftly illustrates the experiences of the kinds of people our country has, until recently, welcomed with open arms . . . Its hard not to feel for Nguyens characters . . . But Nguyen never asks the reader to pity them; he wants us only to see them as human beings. And because of his wonderful writing, its impossible not to do so. Its an urgent, wonderful collection that proves that fiction can be more than mere storytelling—it can bear witness to the lives of people who we cant afford to forget." —NPR Books"The Refugees is as impeccably written as it is timed . . . This is an important and incisive book written by a major writer with firsthand knowledge of the human rights drama exploding on the international stage—and the talent to give us inroads toward understanding it . . . It is refreshing and essential to have this work from a writer who knows and feels the terrain on an intellectual, emotional and cellular level—it shows . . . An exquisite book." —Washington Post"The Refugees arrives right on time . . . In The Refugees, such figures arent, contra Trump, an undifferentiated, threatening mass. They are complicatedly human and deserving our care and empathy . . . In our moment, to look faithfully and empathetically at the scars made by dislocation, to bear witness to the past pain and present vulnerability such scars speak of, is itself a political act. So, too, is Nguyens dedication: For all refugees, everywhere." —Boston Globe"Wistfulness threads through The Refugees like an anthem of displacement. The text is barbed with subtle humor that is wry and painful. The resulting stories are beautiful in their astringency and shifting points of view . . . Nguyens writing travels along a spine of moral reckoning . . . The collection casts a formidable spell, especially at this political moment . . . Very little is forgettable in these lapidary stories." —Los Angeles Times"Tragically good timing . . . A short-story collection mostly plumbing the experience of boat-bound Vietnamese who escaped to California . . . But there are others of different nationalities, alienated not from a nation but from love or home, and displaced in subtler ways . . . Ultimately, Nguyen enlarges empathy, the high ideal of literature and the enemy of hate and fear." —New York"The 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner returns with a beautifully crafted collection that explores the netherworld of Vietnamese refugees, whose lives and cultural dislocation he dissects with precision and grace." —O, The Oprah Magazine"The Refugees is both timely, given the current debate about refugees in America, and timeless in its exploration of universal human struggles. This gorgeous collection of short stories recalls Jhumpa Lahiris Interpreter of Maladies, but with Vietnam as the loose center around which the richly drawn characters orbit . . . The writing in The Refugees is resonant and evocative, abounding with delightful descriptions . . . A must-read." —Associated Press"[A] quietly profound peek into the lives of Vietnams deracinated and dispossessed . . . Absorb[s] both the nostalgia and bitterness that have characterized so many refugees in the decades since 1975, when South Vietnam fell to the communist North and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese began streaming out of their homeland." —San Francisco Chronicle"The Refugees showcases the same astute and penetrating intelligence that characterized [Nguyens] Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer . . . Nguyen is an expert on prickly family dynamics . . . He can also be a sly humorist . . . The Refugees confirms Nguyen as an agile, trenchant writer, able to inhabit a number of contrary points of view. And it whets your appetite for his next novel." —Seattle Times"A terrific new book of short stories . . . Nguyen is an exceptional storyteller who packs an enormous amount of information and images into a short work . . . Nguyens vision of the Vietnamese migration to the United States and its impact on the nation is complex. His message is not Pollyannaish or demonizing . . . Nguyens message, instead, is that they are people, like all of us, with complicated lives and histories." —Chicago Tribune"[A] timely story collection . . . As our first major Vietnamese-American writer, Nguyen is a prodigious genius making up for lost time." —Newsday"The perfect book to read at this historical moment in America . . . With the self-reflection of memoir and the clear-eyed, impartial narration of a history, Nguyen takes readers deep inside his characters in a mere few pages . . . Eye-opening . . . Read it now, or read it laterbut read it." —Huffington Post"Delicately captures the traumas and triumphs of the migrant experience . . . [A] poignant collection of short stories . . . Powerful . . . Nguyens stories are to be admired for their ability to encompass not only the trauma of forced migration but also the grand themes of identity, the complications of love and sexuality, and the general awkwardness of being . . . They are also humorous and smart . . . Nguyen writes . . . with a unique poetry." —Financial Times (UK)"At a time when paranoia about refugees and migrants has reached a new high in America and perhaps the world, Viet Thanh Nguyens first collection of short stories, The Refugees, adds a necessary voice humanizing this group of demonized people . . . These eight works celebrate the art of telling stories as an act of resilience and survival . . . A beautifully written collection, filled with empathy and insight into the lives of people who have too often been erased from the larger American media landscape." —Dallas Morning News"The Refugees is the book we need now . . . [Nguyens] new short story collection demonstrates the richness of the refugee experience—and highlights its singular traumas . . . The most timely short story collection in recent memory . . . The stories in The Refugees [are] haunting and heart-wrenching, but also wry and unapologetic in their humanity . . . Throughout, Nguyen demonstrates the richness of the refugee experience, while also foregrounding the very real trauma that lies at its core." —BuzzFeed"The Refugees is full of complicated family dynamics, cultural rifts and surprising resolutions . . . The eight unpredictable and moving stories that make up The Refugees are a remarkable achievement." —Minneapolis Star Tribune"Viet Thanh Nguyens haunting and timely short story collection . . . Nguyen . . . deftly sketches characters caught in the limbo of dislocation with power and grace . . . These are stories worth meditation, each an arresting glimpse into the enduring disruption of flight and relocation." —Columbus Dispatch"With masterful economy and ease, the Pulitzer Prize-winner subverts our expectations of the refugee experience . . . [An] extraordinary collection . . . Despite the many accolades heaped upon Nguyen . . . it still comes as a revelation just how beguiling these stories are. Sharp, sardonic, poignant and profoundly human . . . The true power of this collection lies in the way Nguyen subverts stereo-typical notions of the refugee experience, both sharpening and stretching our appreciation of its vast, universal dimensions in stories that range across generations, gender and time . . . Nguyen also possesses an extraordinary ability to evoke the everyday, the quotidian details of ordinary lives in vivid, direct prose." —South China Morning Post"The Refugees will haunt its readers, especially in these times, when refugee stories need to be told, shared, and told again, ad infinitum." —A.V. Club"Nguyens stories deal with ghosts and patriotism, mental illness and infidelity, and gender roles and homosexuality, among other topics that highlight the tensions and complexities involved in the refugees search for identity and belonging. The stories humanize Vietnamese-Americans who do not always fit the inflexible model minority stereotype. They take a segment of the American population not always on the social radar and bring it into sharp relief." —America Magazine"In the US, two kinds of stories typically exist about Vietnam and its people: jungles and napalm, or protest and politics. A new collection of short stories by Viet Thanh Nguyen will change that . . . Nguyen . . . is an expert on the implications of displacement . . . A worthy reminder that refugees are children, mothers, and fathers—not just casualties." —Quartz"[A] sophisticated collection . . . Many of these short stories are bona fide perfect . . . Each story is so smooth that you dont at first realise how richly the author is layering his worlds . . . Nguyens character studies are languorous and spacious, a collection that feels like a whole." —Saturday Paper"Excellent . . . Nguyen conveys the trauma and lingering melancholy of displacement in a way that feels deeply honest yet still wonderfully imaginative . . . Nguyen has a remarkable eye for detail that allows him to cast every image with real emotional force . . . Nguyens writing is lyrical and searingly evocative . . . An essential read for anyone seeking to understand the immigrant experience . . . Nguyens writing—as polished and powerful as it was in The Sympathizer—confirms the authors place among todays most compelling literary voices." —Harvard Crimson"The stories abound with images of doubleness and surreal twists of perception, often imbuing the narratives with a dreamlike clarity and strangeness . . . Throughout the collection Nguyen crafts a personal language and imagery superbly fitted to each characters volatile, near-inexpressible memories and reflections. He instinctively understands what to leave off the page and what to include, and when to allow readers to fill in the most painful details for themselves." —Toronto Star"[An] accomplished collection . . . With anger but not despair, with reconciliation but not unrealistic hope, and with genuine humour that is not used to diminish anyone, Nguyen has breathed life into many unforgettable characters, and given us a timely book focusing, in the words of Willa Cather, on the slow working out of fate in people of allied sentiment and allied blood." —Guardian"With President Trumps recent attempt to ban refugees from entering America, the quiet but impressively moving tales dissecting the Vietnamese experience in California in Viet Thanh Nguyens The Refugees are a powerful antidote to all the fear mongering and lies out there . . . A rich exploration of human identity, family ties and love and loss, never has a short story collection been timelier." —Independent (UK)"This stunning collection of stories affirms the brilliance of Nguyen . . . A collection of exceptional stories that ring with topicality and truth . . . The opening story, Black-Eyed Women . . . is a superbly orchestrated piece of writing, with many movements and depths, moving across generations . . . The Refugees is a book that needs to be read: it is astonishingly good." —RTÉ Guide (Ireland)"A timely look at lives of outsiders in America . . . [Nguyens] understanding of the refugee tragedy . . . is profound. Yet, the abiding power of these intelligent, crafted stories is his reading of human nature in domestic situations and often astute dialogue . . . [An] unpretentious, deliberate and well-observed collection." —Irish Times"The eight stories that make up this brief volume are a delight . . . The short story is a beautiful affirmation of the supreme importance of art in our daily lives. And Viet Thanh Nguyen drives that point home brilliantly." —Mekong Review"A collection of short stories that span [Nguyens] 20-year struggle to earn the title of writer." —Mother Jones"At a time when the American federal government is questioning more than ever the value of refugees lives, this book is not only a moving read—its utterly necessary." —Literary Hub"Viet Thanh Nguyen writes funny . . . But what also makes him such a notable writer is how he can oscillate from comedy to tragedy . . . Viets stories succeed." —Electric Literature"A remarkable work of fiction." —Bustle (15 of 2017s Most Anticipated Fiction Books)"Both a timely work of fiction and an artistic retrospective of a communitys voyage over the decades." —National Post (Buzz-worthy Books for February)"Nguyens brilliant new work of fiction offers vivid and intimate portrayals of characters and explores identity, war, and loss in stories collected over a period of two decades." —Millions (Most Anticipated Book Previews)"A collection of stories that could not be any more relevant for the years that lie ahead. Dedicated to all refugees, everywhere, Nguyens absorbing prose about people forced to leave their homes and begin anew should be mandatory reading for 2017." —AM New York (2017 Books to Read)"A heart-rending work exploring themes of identity, culture, family, immigration, alienation, and the desire to belong . . . A captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of immigration." —New York Journal of Books"[T]his book is vital . . . The ghost of Saigon reaches into each tale, a reminder that trauma leaves an imprint and echoes in the lives of different people and their children." —Holly Voigt, Junkee"The Refugees could not be more timely—or timeless . . . Nguyen handles the subject matter with empathy and sociopolitical awareness. He pairs brutally authentic realism with lyric narratives to ultimately resonate with haunting truth . . . These stories are unified by their gentle poignancy and their investigations into shifting identity . . . haunting, beautiful and urgent." —BookReporter.com"A luminous collection . . . that takes piercingly intimate looks at the lives of refugees . . . Nguyens prose is consistently eloquent and thoughtful." —8Asians.com"Each searing tale in Nguyens follow-up to the Pulitzer-winning The Sympathizer is a pressure cooker of unease, simmering with unresolved issues of memory and identity for the Vietnamese whose lives were disrupted by the American War. . . . . Nguyen is not here to sympathize . . . but to challenge the experience of white America as the invisible norm." —Publishers Weekly (starred, boxed review)"A collection of fluidly modulated yet bracing stories about Vietnamese refugees in the U.S., powerful tales of rupture and loss that detonate successive shock waves . . . Each intimate, supple, and heartrending story is unique in its particulars even as all are works of piercing clarity, poignant emotional nuance, and searing insights into the trauma of war and the long chill of exile, the assault on identity and the resilience of the self, and the fragility and preciousness of memories." —Booklist (starred review)"For Nguyen groupies desperate for future titles (including a Sympathizer sequel), The Refugees is a highly gratifying interlude. For short fiction fans of other extraordinary, between-culture collections such as Daniyal Mueenuddins In Other Rooms, Other Wonders and Jhumpa Lahiris Unaccustomed Earth, Nguyen wont disappoint." —Library Journal (starred review)"Precise without being clinical, archly humorous without being condescending, and full of understanding; many of the stories might have been written by a modern Flaubert, if that master had spent time in San Jose or Ho Chi Minh City . . . [Nguyens] stories, excellent from start to finish, transcend ethnic boundaries to speak to human universals." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Nguyens penetrating gaze will mesmerize readers and open windows to the particular nuances of a population struggling to find its identity . . . While Nguyen offers philosophical battles both internal and external, he also uses language that is delivered with reverence and grace, conjuring robust imagery . . . The Refugees is simply a beautiful collection of captivating stories. Nguyens flair with words and his genius at succinct, compelling plots and dynamic characters creates huge worlds in few pages. This is a book to savor again and again." —Shelf Awareness"Nguyens stories are beautiful things full of disorientation, fear, love, and alternate experiences of home . . . His stories illuminate the Vietnamese experience—from fleeing the country to growing up second-generation in other nations." —AudioFile"Longing and loss infuse these tales of damaged war veterans, tough women and children caught between two cultures, memorably rendered in Nguyens lapidary prose." —London Evening Standard"Nguyens fluent portrait of the many faces of exile makes for a touching and timely read." —Independent (UK) (10 Best Short Story Collections)"In these times of looking inward and shutting out, of breaking down bridges and building walls, Nguyens eight stark and incisive tales provide valuable, necessary insight into the pain and upheaval of exchanging a homeland for an adopted other . . . Stories are just things we fabricate, nothing more, one character declares. But they arent, or at least not in Nguyens capable hands. His are rich, transformative tales whose truths run deep and whose characters plights move us." —National (Abu Dhabi)"Hits like a punch in the gut . . . The Sympathizer is a hard act to follow, but The Refugees eight stories are pared so thin of superfluity that their elegant brevity more than stands up against their brilliant . . . predecessor . . . Harrowing yet heartening . . . [A] timely collection . . . with devastating grace." —Straits Times (Singapore)"Powerful and timely in this day and age, helping us to understand the dreams and hardships of those who leave one country to rebuild their lives in another one." —City Weekend (Shanghai) Promotional tie-in with author lecture schedulepaperback review coveragealso available as an Audible audiobook Long Description Viet Thanh Nguyens debut The Sympathizer won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and became one of the most acclaimed novels of recent years, its author recognized as an important contemporary writer and thinker. His beautiful and deeply moving new book, The Refugees , is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years. In these powerful stories set in both Vietnam and America, Nguyen paints a vivid portrait of the experience of people leading lives between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. With the same incisiveness as in The Sympathizer , in The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to the hopes and expectations of people making life-changing decisions to leave one country for another, and the rifts in identity, loyalties, romantic relationships, and family that accompany relocation. 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 migration. The second work of fiction by a major new voice in American letters, 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. Review Quote Praise for The Refugees : A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 2017 Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle , Esquire , BuzzFeed , Electric Literature , Chicago Public Library, National Post , Kirkus Reviews , BookPage , and Goodreads Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize An Indie Next Selection "Stories about people poised between their devastated homeland and their affluent adopted country . . . Viet Thanh Nguyen [is] one of our great chroniclers of displacement . . . beautiful and heartrending . . . Nguyens narrative style--restrained, spare, avoiding metaphor or the syntactical virtuosity on display in every paragraph of The Sympathizer --is well suited for portraying tentative states . . . all Nguyens fiction is pervaded by a shared intensity of vision, by stinging perceptions that drift like windblown ashes." --Joyce Carol Oates, New Yorker "These stories of Vietnamese refugees cast a lingering spell . . . [A] superb new collection . . . The collections subtle, attentive prose and straightforward narrative style perfectly suit the low-profile civilian lives it explores . . . With the volume turned down, we lean in more closely, listening beyond what the refugees say to step into their skins." -- New York Times Book Review "A beautiful collection that deftly illustrates the experiences of the kinds of people our country has, until recently, welcomed with open arms . . . Its hard not to feel for Nguyens characters . . . But Nguyen never asks the reader to pity them; he wants us only to see them as human beings. And because of his wonderful writing, its impossible not to do so. Its an urgent, wonderful collection that proves that fiction can be more than mere storytelling--it can bear witness to the lives of people who we cant afford to forget." -- NPR Books " The Refugees is as impeccably written as it is timed . . . This is an important and incisive book written by a major writer with firsthand knowledge of the human rights drama exploding on the international stage--and the talent to give us inroads toward understanding it . . . It is refreshing and essential to have this work from a writer who knows and feels the terrain on an intellectual, emotional and cellular level--it shows . . . An exquisite book." -- Washington Post " The Refugees arrives right on time . . . In The Refugees , such figures arent, contra Trump, an undifferentiated, threatening mass. They are complicatedly human and deserving our care and empathy . . . In our moment, to look faithfully and empathetically at the scars made by dislocation, to bear witness to the past pain and present vulnerability such scars speak of, is itself a political act. So, too, is Nguyens dedication: For all refugees, everywhere." -- Boston Globe "Wistfulness threads through The Refugees like an anthem of displacement. The text is barbed with subtle humor that is wry and painful. The resulting stories are beautiful in their astringency and shifting points of view . . . Nguyens writing travels along a spine of moral reckoning . . . The collection casts a formidable spell, especially at this political moment . . . Very little is forgettable in these lapidary stories." -- Los Angeles Times "Tragically good timing . . . A short-story collection mostly plumbing the experience of boat-bound Vietnamese who escaped to California . . . But there are others of different nationalities, alienated not from a nation but from love or home, and displaced in subtler ways . . . Ultimately, Nguyen enlarges empathy, the high ideal of literature and the enemy of hate and fear." -- New York "The 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner returns with a beautifully crafted collection that explores the netherworld of Vietnamese refugees, whose lives and cultural dislocation he dissects with precision and grace." -- O, The Oprah Magazine " The Refugees is both timely, given the current debate about refugees in America, and timeless in its exploration of universal human struggles. This gorgeous collection of short stories recalls Jhumpa Lahiris Interpreter of Maladies , but with Vietnam as the loose center around which the richly drawn characters orbit . . . The writing in The Refugees is resonant and evocative, abounding with delightful descriptions . . . A must-read." -- Associated Press "[A] quietly profound peek into the lives of Vietnams deracinated and dispossessed . . . Absorb[s] both the nostalgia and bitterness that have characterized so many refugees in the decades since 1975, when South Vietnam fell to the communist North and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese began streaming out of their homeland." -- San Francisco Chronicle " The Refugees showcases the same astute and penetrating intelligence that characterized [Nguyens] Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer . . . Nguyen is an expert on prickly family dynamics . . . He can also be a sly humorist . . . The Refugees confirms Nguyen as an agile, trenchant writer, able to inhabit a number of contrary points of view. And it whets your appetite for his next novel." -- Seattle Times "A terrific new book of short stories . . . Nguyen is an exceptional storyteller who packs an enormous amount of information and images into a short work . . . Nguyens vision of the Vietnamese migration to the United States and its impact on the nation is complex. His message is not Pollyannaish or demonizing . . . Nguyens message, instead, is that they are people, like all of us, with complicated lives and histories. " -- Chicago Tribune "[A] timely story collection . . . As our first major Vietnamese-American writer, Nguyen is a prodigious genius making up for lost time." -- Newsday "The perfect book to read at this historical moment in America . . . With the self-reflection of memoir and the clear-eyed, impartial narration of a history, Nguyen takes readers deep inside his characters in a mere few pages . . . Eye-opening . . . Read it now, or read it laterbut read it." -- Huffington Post "Delicately captures the traumas and triumphs of the migrant experience . . . [A] poignant collection of short stories . . . Powerful . . . Nguyens stories are to be admired for their ability to encompass not only the trauma of forced migration but also the grand themes of identity, the complications of love and sexuality, and the general awkwardness of being . . . They are also humorous and smart . . . Nguyen writes . . . with a unique poetry." -- Financial Times (UK) Excerpt from Book Ever since my father died a few years ago, my mother and I had lived together politely. We shared a passion for words, but I preferred writing in silence while she loved to talk. She constantly fed me gossip and stories, the only kind I enjoyed concerning my father when he was a man I did not know, young and happy. Then came stories of terror like the one about the reporter, the moral being that life, like the police, enjoys beating people now and again. Finally there was her favorite kind, the ghost story, of which she knew many, some even first-hand. Aunt Six died of a heart attack at seventy-six, she told me once, twice, or perhaps three times, repetition being her habit. I never took her stories seriously. She lived in Vung Tau and we were in Nha Trang, she said. I was bringing dinner to the table when I saw Aunt Six sitting there in her nightgown. Her long gray hair, which she usually wore in a chignon, was loose and fell over her shoulders and in her face. I almost dropped the dishes. When I asked her what she was doing here, she just smiled. She stood up, kissed me, and turned me towards the kitchen. When I turned around again to see her, she was gone. It was her ghost. Uncle confirmed it when I called. She had passed away that morning, in her own bed. Description for Sales People The Refugees received astonishing attention in hardcover, including a career-assessing rave by Joyce Carol Oates in the New Yorker , appearances by Nguyen on Late Night with Seth Meyers and NPRs "All Things Considered," profiles in TIME and on BuzzFeed , and positive reviews the New York Times Book Review , Washington Post , Los Angeles Times , and Boston Globe , plus four starred pre-pubs. The Refugees is especially relevant in our current political climate as domestic immigration becomes a centerpiece of public discourse, and the New York Times recently included The Refugees on a list of "25 Great Books by Refugees." A refugee himself, Nguyen is a staunch advocate for refugee rights and has spoken and written widely on the subject. A New York Times Editors Choice, An Indie Next selection, and an Amazon Best Book of the Month (Literature and Fiction) The Refugees is in its third printing and has sold over 50,000 copies to date. In hardcover, the book was supported by a major national tour, including events in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Newport Beach, Pasadena, Irvine, Washington, D.C., New York City, Seattle, WA, Portland, OR, Salt Lake City, UT, Santa Fe, NM, Phoenix, AZ, Athens, GA, Grand Forks, ND, Columbus, OH, Clemson, SC, Williamstown, MA, and Arlington, VA. The Sympathizer has sold over 450,000 copies to date. It is one of the most lauded debuts of the last years, winning the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (Adult Fiction), the California Book Award for First Fiction, and the Association for Asian Studies Award for Best Book in Creative Writing (Prose). Nguyens recent nonfiction book, Nothing Ever Dies , was shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction. Since his Pulitzer win, Nguyens profile has risen astronomically, he is now a critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times , has been asked to be the keynote speaker at major festivals in the U.S. and abroad, and has written for the White House, regularly writes for the New York Times and other major media on matters of immigration, the contemporary Vietnam-America relationship, and the intersection of the experiences of people of color and the publishing/creative world. Details ISBN0802127363 Pages 224 Publisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Year 2018 ISBN-10 0802127363 ISBN-13 9780802127365 Format Paperback Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 813.6 Replaces 9780802126399 Author Viet Thanh Nguyen Language English Publication Date 2018-02-15 NZ Release Date 2018-02-15 US Release Date 2018-02-15 UK Release Date 2018-02-15 Audience General AU Release Date 2018-03-31 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:150370059;

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