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The Boat

The Boat( )
Author: Le, Nam
ISBN:978-1-4596-2104-6
Publication Date:May 2011
Publisher:ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $44.99AUD $61.99
Book Description:

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 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...
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Book Details
Pages:398
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Short Stories (Single Author)
Author Biography
Le, Nam (Author)


Nam Le is a Vietnamese-born Australian writer, who won the Dylan Thomas Prize for his book The Boat which is a collection of short stories. His stories have been published in several places including Best Australian Stories 2007, Best New American Voices, Zoetrope: All-Story, A Public Space and One Story. He has won several awards including Pushcart Prize, Prime Minister's Literary award, Anisfield -Wolf Book Award and PEN/Malamud Award. He will be featured at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival 2015 program.

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