Ru, Kim Thúy ; translated from the French by Sheila Fischman
Type
Label
Ru, Kim Thúy ; translated from the French by Sheila Fischman
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Ru
Oclc number
822972367
Responsibility statement
Kim Thúy ; translated from the French by Sheila Fischman
Series statement
Thorndike Press Large Print Reviewers' Choice
Summary
At ten years old, Kim Thúy fled Vietnam on a boat with her family, leaving behind a grand house and the many less tangible riches of their home country: the ponds of lotus blossoms, the songs of soup-vendors. The family arrived in Quebec, where they found clothes at the flea market, and mattresses with actual fleas. Kim learned French and English, and as she grew older, seized what opportunities an immigrant could; she put herself through school picking vegetables and sewing clothes, worked as a lawyer and interpreter, and later as a restaurateur. She was married and a mother when the urge to write struck her, and she found herself scribbling words at every opportunity - pulling out her notebook at stoplights and missing the change to green. The story emerging was one of a Vietnamese émigré on a boat to an unknown future: her own story fictionalized and crafted into a stunning novel
Classification
Contributor
Creator
Mapped to
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor1
- Creator1
- Subject2
- Mapped to1