Author: Kim Thuy
Year: 2009
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Fiction, Award winners, Historical fiction
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9782867465321
9781608198986
286746532X
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Une femme voyage à travers le desordre des souvenirs : l'enfance dans sa cage d'or à Saigon, l'arrivee du communisme dans le Sud-Vietnam apeure, la fuite dans le ventre d'un bateau au large du golfe de Siam, l'internement dans un camp de refugies en Malaisie, les premiers frissons dans le froid du Quebec. Recit entre la guerre et la paix, ru dit le vide et le trop-plein, l'egarement et la beaute. De ce tumulte, des incidents tragi-comiques, des objets ordinaires emergent comme autant de reperes d'un parcours. En evoquant un bracelet en acrylique rempli de diamants, des bols bleus cercles d'argent ou la puissance d'une odeur d'assouplissant, Kim Thuy restitue le Vietnam d'hier et d'aujourd'hui avec la maîtrise d'un grand ecrivain.
A runaway bestseller in Quebec, with foreign rights sold to 15 countries around the world, Kim Thuy's Governor General's Literary Award-winning Ru is a lullaby for Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland.
Ru. In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow - of tears, blood, money. Kim Thuy's Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the tides of unrest and on to more peaceful waters. In vignettes of exquisite clarity, sharp observation and sly wit, we are carried along on an unforgettable journey from a palatial residence in Saigon to a crowded and muddy Malaysian refugee camp, and onward to a new life in Quebec. There, the young girl feels the embrace of a new community, and revels in the chance to be part of the American Dream. As an adult, the waters become rough again: now a mother of two sons, she must learn to shape her love around the younger boy's autism. Moving seamlessly from past to present, from history to memory and back again, Ru is a book that celebrates life in all its wonder: its moments of beauty and sensuality, brutality and sorrow, comfort and comedy.
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