{"title":"Thuy Kim","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"ru-book-thuy-kim-9780345816146","title":"Ru","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of 2015 Canada Reads Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of Grand Prix litt raire Archambault\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2012 Soctiabank Giller Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2018 New Academy Prize in Literature \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2014 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt ten years old, Kim Th y 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  migr  on a boat to an unknown future: her own story fictionalized and crafted into a stunning novel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe novel's title, \u003ci\u003eRu\u003c\/i\u003e, has meaning in both Kim's native and adoptive languages: in Vietnamese, \u003ci\u003eru\u003c\/i\u003e is a lullaby; in French, a stream. And it provides the perfect name for this slim yet potent novel. With prose that soothes and sings, \u003ci\u003eRu \u003c\/i\u003eweaves through time, flows and transports: a river of sensuous memories gathering power. It's a classic immigrant story told in a breathtaking new way.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49635802939665,"sku":"CIN0345816145G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50531204170001,"sku":"CIN0345816145VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53155202334993,"sku":"CIN0345816145A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53613848166673,"sku":"GOR007438884","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0345816145.jpg?v=1751291449"},{"product_id":"ru-book-thuy-kim-9780307359711","title":"Ru","description":"\u003cp\u003eRu. In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow--of tears, blood, money. Kim Th y's\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eRu\u0026gt;\u003c\/i\u003eis 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, \u003ci\u003eRu\u0026gt;\u003c\/i\u003eis a book that celebrates life in all its wonder: its moments of beauty and sensuality, brutality and sorrow, comfort and comedy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50327488463121,"sku":"GOR013928646","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50420981924113,"sku":"CIN0307359719VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50529671807249,"sku":"CIN0307359719G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50733816643857,"sku":"GOR007851150","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53233432658193,"sku":"GOR007874601","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0307359719.jpg?v=1751390067"},{"product_id":"ru-french-edition-book-thuy-kim-9782253158035","title":"Ru (French Edition)","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50937888637201,"sku":"CIN2253158038VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51208201502993,"sku":"CIN2253158038G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52635313307921,"sku":"GOR014572906","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53401514901777,"sku":"GOR009739861","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53402874741009,"sku":"GOR006729978","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/2253158038.jpg?v=1751317120"},{"product_id":"em-book-thuy-kim-9782764813294","title":"Em","description":"\u003cb\u003eA novel of the emotional intricacies of trauma and exile, from the author of international bestselling\u003ci\u003e Ru \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFinalist of the New Academy Prize in Literature\u003cbr\u003eFinalist Scotiabank Giller Prize\u003cbr\u003eWinner du Prix du Gran Public au salon du livre de Montreal\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Grand Prix RTL-Lire \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmma-Jade and Louis are born into the havoc of the Vietnam War. Orphaned, saved and cared for by adults coping with the chaos of Saigon in free-fall, they become children of the Vietnamese diaspora. \u003ci\u003eEm\u003c\/i\u003e is not a romance in any usual sense of the word, but it is a word whose homonym--\u003ci\u003eaimer\u003c\/i\u003e, to love--resonates on every page, a book powered by love in the larger sense. A portrait of Vietnamese identity emerges that is wholly remarkable, honed in wartime violence that borders on genocide, and then by the ingenuity, sheer grit and intelligence of Vietnamese-Americans, Vietnamese-Canadians and other Vietnamese former refugees who go on to build some of the most powerful small business empires in the world. \u003ci\u003eEm\u003c\/i\u003e is a poetic story steeped in history, about those most impacted by the violence and their later accomplishments. In many ways, \u003ci\u003eEm\u003c\/i\u003e is perhaps Kim Th y's most personal book, the one in which she trusts her readers enough to share with them not only the pervasive love she feels but also the rage and the horror at what she and so many other children of the Vietnam War had to live through. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Written in Kim Th y's trademark style, near to prose poetry, \u003ci\u003eEm\u003c\/i\u003e reveals her fascination with connection. Through the linked destinies of characters connected by birth and destiny, the novel zigzags between the rubber plantations of Indochina; daily life in Saigon during the war as people find ways to survive and help each other; Operation Babylift, which evacuated thousands of biracial orphans from Saigon in April 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War; and today's global nail polish and nail salon industry, largely driven by former Vietnamese refugees--and everything in between. Here are human lives shaped both by unspeakable trauma and also the beautiful sacrifices of those who made sure at least some of these children survived.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53683309347089,"sku":"CIN2764813295G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9782764813294.jpg?v=1781722847"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-thuy-kim.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}