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"In 1978 six refugees - a girl, her father, and four "uncles" - are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the child's imagination, the world of itchy dresses and run-down apartments is transmuted into an unearthly realm: she sees everything intensely, hears the distress calls of inanimate objects and waits for her mother to join her." But life loses none of its strangeness when the family is reunited. As the girl grows, her matter-of-fact innocence eddies increasingly around opaque and ghostly traumas: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland, the memory of a brother who drowned and, most inescapable, her father's hopeless rage for a father's order.
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- Author/s Diem Thúy, Le Thi
- ISBN13 9780375700026
- ISBN10 0375700021
- Pages 160
- Published 2004
- Language English
The Gangster we are all looking for
- Author Le Thi Diem Thúy
- Publisher VINTAGE
- ISBN 9780375700026
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