The Gangster We Are All Looking For  -  Le, Thuy

KORTE INHOUD

A momentous literary debut: the life of a Vietnamese family in America luminously observed through the knowing eyes of a child.
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 strange...
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2004 Uitgever: Picador 176 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0330419838 ISBN-13: 9780330419833