Ru

by Kim Thúy, Manuel Serrat Crespo (Translator)

Overview

The word Ru, chosen by Kim Thúy as the title of this beautiful novel, means "nursery rhyme" in Vietnamese, his mother tongue, and "creek" in French, his adopted language. Taking the form of the flow of a stream, the narration navigates the passage through a refugee camp in Malaysia and the beginning of a new immigrant life in Canada. Thúy recreates with great delicacy and light a story that took thirty years to decide to write: his own. Impelled by the duty to remember, the novel does not evade the account of the difficulties that a human being must face, who is facing a process of reinvention imposed by exile. However, its starting point is the serenity and gratitude of those who, despite everything, feel the obligation to be happy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788418264023
Publisher:	Editorial Periférica
Publication date:	03/30/2020
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	570 KB
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Kim Thúy was born in Saigon and arrived in Quebec at age ten in 1978, with the first wave of boat people from Vietnam. She has degrees from the University of Montreal in linguistics and translation and in law, and she has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, translator, lawyer, and restaurateur. Thúy lives in Montreal, where she now devotes herself to writing. This is her first novel.

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I came into the world during the Tet Offensive, in the early days of the Year of the Monkey, when the long chains of firecrackers draped in front of houses exploded polyphonically along with the sound of machine guns.
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