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Wandering Souls is a British novel by French-born author Cecile Pin, published on 21 March 2023 by Fourth Estate (a HarperCollins imprint). The story of a family of Vietnamese refugees adapting to life in the United Kingdom, it features references to various atrocities and disasters that afflicted refugees in the 20th century.
The Refugees is a 2017 short story collection by Viet Thanh Nguyen. [4] It is Nguyen's first published short story collection and his first book after winning the Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer .
In Vietnam, the Communist government did not allow the series to be filmed locally, and the completed series was banned from being shown. [24] At the time of the series' premiere, no official Vietnamese translation of The Sympathizer novel (which was released in English in the US) had been published in the country. [ 25 ]
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The fall of Saigon has been a commonly depicted subject across Western media, but the portrayal in the new HBO drama series “The Sympathizer” — in which panicked families attempt to flee ...
Vietnamese actors "haven’t gotten a chance to be showcased and they certainly haven’t gotten a chance to be the leads in telling a story from their perspective," series executive producer ...
Diasporic Vietnamese narratives refer to the stories, memories, and experiences written about the Vietnamese diaspora. Vietnamese diaspora is the dispersion of Vietnamese people living outside of Vietnam. Scholars indicate that the Vietnamese diaspora is unique because of its complex "historical roots of refugee-exile circumstances."
Viet was born in Ban Mê Thuột, South Vietnam in 1971. [17] He was the son of Linda Thanh Nguyen and Joseph Thanh Nguyen, [18] refugees from North Vietnam who had moved south in 1954. [19] [20] Viet's mother's real name is Nguyễn Thị Bảy and she is a highly influential person in his life.