Gangster We Are All Looking For
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Gangster We Are All Looking For by Thuy Le
In 1978, six Vietnamese refugees were pulled from the sea just off California. In San Diego, a little girl's matter-of-fact innocence masks the ghostly traumas that still haunt her: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland; the memory of a brother who drowned; the heartbreaking spectacle of her parents trying to make a new home, their struggle backlit by the memory of a forbidden love when they were young. thuy le has revealed a world of great beauty and enormous sorrows.
"'A beautiful, deeply moving story of a familyThe more I read, the more I felt the family was mine Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated"
le thi diem thuy was born in Phan Thiet, southern Vietnam. She and her father left Vietnam in 1978, by boat, eventually settling in southern California. le is currently a Radcliffe Fellow and resides in Western Massachusetts, USA. This is her first novel.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780330354448 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330354442 |
| Title | Gangster We Are All Looking For |
| Author | Thuy Le |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2004-08-06 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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