Em / Kim Thúy ; translated by Sheila Fischman.
Language: English Original language: French Publisher: Toronto : Random House Canada, 2021Description: 160 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781039000834
- C843/.6 23
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War, again. And love, again, too. Kim Thúy's Em is a mesmerizing, heart-grasping and kaleidoscopically intricate new novel that reveals the many visible and invisible threads of human connection. In the midst of war, an ordinary miracle: an abandoned baby tenderly cared for by a young boy living on the streets of Saigon. The boy is Louis, the child of a long-gone American soldier. Louis calls the baby em Hồng, em meaning "little sister," or "beloved." Even though her cradle is nothing more than a cardboard box, em Hồng's life holds every possibility. Through the linked destinies of a family of characters, the novel takes its inspiration from historical events, including Operation Babylift, which evacuated thousands of biracial orphans from Saigon in April 1975, and the remarkable growth of the nail salon industry, dominated by Vietnamese expatriates all over the world. From the rubber plantations of Indochina to the massacre at My Lai, Kim Thúy extricates the layers of pain and trauma from stories we thought we knew, and reveals transcendent moments of grace behind the still images from the twenty-year conflict.
Translated from the French.
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