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The Boat

by Nam Le

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Synopsis

<p>'The Boat raises the bar for Australian writing.'<br />PETER CRAVEN, <i>Heat</i><br /><br />'Nam Le is . . . a disturber of the peace.<br /><br />'Consider the subjects of his stories: a child assassin in Colombia ('Cartagena'), an ageing New York artist desperate for a reconciliation with his daughter ('Meeting Elise'), a boy's coming of age in a rough Victorian fishing town ('Halflead Bay'), before the first atomic bomb falls in Japan ('Hiroshima'), The suffocations of theocracy in Iran ('Tehran Calling').<span>  </span>This astonishing range is topped and tailed by accounts of the uneasy reunion of a young Vietnamese writer in America with his ex-soldier father, and by the title story – the escape of a group of exhausted refugees from the Vietcong in a wallowing boat.<br /><br />'One might be permitted to think, after all this high seriousness and intensity, Nam Le can't do funny.<span>  </span>But this criminally talented 29-year-old can do that as well.'<br />BARRY OAKLEY, <i>Australian Literary Review</i><br /><br />'Stunning'<br /><i>The Times</i><br /><br />'A fearless new Australian voice that accepts no geographical limits: these are stories of leaping power and the most breath-taking grace and intimacy.'<br />HELEN GARNER<br /><br />'Wonderful stories that snarl and pant across our crazed world . . . an extraordinary performance.<span>  </span>Nam Le is a heartbreaker, not easily forgotten.'<br />JUNOT DIAZ<br /><br />'The fiction debut of the year.'<br />JAMES LEY, <i>Australian Book Review<br /></i><br />'The best book debut of 2008.'<br /><i>New York Magazine</i><br /><i><br /></i>'The runaway literary success of 2008.'<br /><i>Weekend Australian</i></p>

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ISBN:
9781742284781
Category:
General
Format:
EPUB
Publication Date:
2009-03-02
Publisher:
Penguin Group Australia
Language:
en
KoboId: a4ad4193f5d74af08964ebf425109f91

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