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It is Nguyen's first published short story collection and his first book after winning the Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer. The eight-story collection, set in different locations in California and Vietnam, earned favorable reviews from critics, particularly for offering insight into the lives of migrants like those the book depicts.
In the novel, Mahmoud Bishara is a 12-year-old living in Aleppo, Syria in 2015. He resides with his parents Yousef and Fatima, his brother Waleed, who is a 10-year-old, and his sister Hana, a baby. Mahmoud lived through the trauma of the Syrian Civil War, which has already been raging for four years, in Mahmoud's story. Mahmoud copes with these ...
Pages in category "Books about Vietnam" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. F. Fire in the Lake; O.
Vietnamese boat people (Vietnamese: Thuyền nhân Việt Nam) were refugees who fled Vietnam by boat and ship following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. This migration and humanitarian crisis was at its highest in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but continued well into the early 1990s.
Source: Robinson, W. Courtland Terms of Refuge United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, London: Zed Books, 1998 p. 270, 276, Appendix 2; Far Eastern Economic Review, June 23, 1978, p. 20 Indochinese repatriated, voluntarily or involuntarily, to their home countries with assistance from UNHCR totalled 525,000 between 1975 and 1997.
Kim Thúy Ly Thanh, CM CQ (born 1968 in Saigon, South Vietnam) [1] is a Vietnamese-born Canadian writer. Kim Thúy was born in Vietnam in 1968. At the age of 10 she left Vietnam along with a wave of refugees commonly referred to in the media as “the boat people” and settled with her family in Quebec, Canada. A graduate in translation and ...
Pages in category "Books about refugees" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. The Book of My Lives;
Viet Thanh Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thanh Việt; born March 13, 1971 [a]) is a South Vietnamese-born American professor and novelist. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California .