- Published: 16 November 2021
- ISBN: 9781644211151
- Imprint: Seven Stories Press
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 160
- RRP: $49.99
Em
A Novel
- Published: 16 November 2021
- ISBN: 9781644211151
- Imprint: Seven Stories Press
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 160
- RRP: $49.99
"Kim Thuy's writing flows like poetry - it transports and appeases. It is powerful and evocative. This first novel provides a rare feeling of bliss." —Le Figaro
"An exemplary autobiographical novel...The major events in the fall of Vietnam are painted in delicate strokes, through the daily existence of a woman who has to reinvent herself elsewhere. A tragic journey described in a keen, sensitive and perfectly understated voice." —Governor General's Literary Award jury citation
"Kim Thuy describes her journey...employing scattered memories as they flow from the conscience... rich in sense and imagery.. The title, Ru, which means "stream" in French... sets the tone of this delicate novel, where the past and present mingle, reconstructing the course of a singular life." —Le Monde
"In a series of vignettes which extend from wartime Vietnam to the hospitable precincts of Quebec, Kim Thúy writes with equal delicacy and candor about a childhood marked by horrifying brutality, and the pleasures of ordinary peace. A brave and moving book, bringing lucid insight both to the costs of violence, and elusive processes of psychic survival." —Eva Hoffman, author of Lost in Translation