Chinatown
(Book)
Uniform Title
Author
Contributors
Nguyẽ̂n An Lý, translator.
Published
New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2022].
Status
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction | Fiction Thuan | On Shelf |
Main Library - Adult Fiction | Fiction Thuan | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2022].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
160 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
UPC
40031226728
Notes
General Note
"A New Directions paperbook original"
Description
"An abandoned package is discovered in the Paris Metro: the subway workers suspect it's a terrorist bomb. A Vietnamese woman sitting nearby, her son asleep on her shoulder, waits and begins to reflect on her life, from her constrained childhood in communist Hanoi, to a long period of study in Lenin-grad during the Gorbachev period, and finally to the Parisian suburbs where she now teaches English. Through everything runs her passion for Thuy, the father of her son, a writer who lives in Saigon's Chinatown, and who, with the shadow of the China-Vietnam border war falling darkly between them, she has not seen for eleven years. Through her breathless, vertiginous, and deeply moving monologue from beside the subway tracks-interspersed with extracts from Thuy's own novel-the narrator attempts to once and for all face the past and exorcise the passion that haunts her"--,Provided by publisher.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Thuận., & Nguyẽ̂n An Lý. (2022). Chinatown . New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Thuận, 1967- and Nguyẽ̂n An Lý. 2022. Chinatown. New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Thuận, 1967- and Nguyẽ̂n An Lý. Chinatown New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Thuận, and Nguyẽ̂n An Lý. Chinatown New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022.
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