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Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer was one of the most widely and highly praised novels of 2015, the winner not only of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but also the Center for Fiction Debut Novel Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, the ALA Carnegie Medal for Fiction, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and the California Book Award for First Fiction. Nguyen's next fiction book, The Refugees, is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family.
With the coruscating gaze that informed The Sympathizer, in The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her for a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of immigration. The second piece of fiction by a major new voice in American letters, The Refugees is a beautifully written and sharply observed book about the aspirations of those who leave one country for another, and the relationships and desires for self-fulfillment that define our lives.
- Sales Rank: #7530 in Books
- Brand: Grove Press
- Published on: 2017-02-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.10" h x 1.00" w x 5.70" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 224 pages
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Praise for The Refugees:
An Amazon Best Book of the Month (Literature and Fiction)
A New York Times Editors’ Choice
An Indie Next Selection
“Stories about people poised between their devastated homeland and their affluent adopted country . . . Viet Thanh Nguyen [is] one of our great chroniclers of displacement . . . beautiful and heartrending . . . Nguyen’s narrative style―restrained, spare, avoiding metaphor or the syntactical virtuosity on display in every paragraph of The Sympathizer―is well suited for portraying tentative states . . . all Nguyen’s fiction is pervaded by a shared intensity of vision, by stinging perceptions that drift like windblown ashes.”―Joyce Carol Oates, New Yorker
“These stories of Vietnamese refugees cast a lingering spell . . . [A] superb new collection . . . The collection’s subtle, attentive prose and straightforward narrative style perfectly suit the low-profile civilian lives it explores . . . With the volume turned down, we lean in more closely, listening beyond what the refugees say to step into their skins.”―New York Times Book Review
“A beautiful collection that deftly illustrates the experiences of the kinds of people our country has, until recently, welcomed with open arms . . . It’s hard not to feel for Nguyen’s characters . . . But Nguyen never asks the reader to pity them; he wants us only to see them as human beings. And because of his wonderful writing, it’s impossible not to do so. It’s an urgent, wonderful collection that proves that fiction can be more than mere storytelling―it can bear witness to the lives of people who we can’t afford to forget.”―NPR Books
“The Refugees is as impeccably written as it is timed . . . This is an important and incisive book written by a major writer with firsthand knowledge of the human rights drama exploding on the international stage―and the talent to give us inroads toward understanding it . . . It is refreshing and essential to have this work from a writer who knows and feels the terrain on an intellectual, emotional and cellular level―it shows . . . An exquisite book.”―Washington Post
“The Refugees arrives right on time . . . In The Refugees, such figures aren’t, contra Trump, an undifferentiated, threatening mass. They are complicatedly human and deserving our care and empathy . . . In our moment, to look faithfully and empathetically at the scars made by dislocation, to bear witness to the past pain and present vulnerability such scars speak of, is itself a political act. So, too, is Nguyen’s dedication: ‘For all refugees, everywhere.’”―Boston Globe
“Wistfulness threads through The Refugees like an anthem of displacement. The text is barbed with subtle humor that is wry and painful. The resulting stories are beautiful in their astringency and shifting points of view . . . Nguyen’s writing travels along a spine of moral reckoning . . . The collection casts a formidable spell, especially at this political moment . . . Very little is forgettable in these lapidary stories.”―Los Angeles Times
“Tragically good timing . . . A short-story collection mostly plumbing the experience of boat-bound Vietnamese who escaped to California . . . But there are others of different nationalities, alienated not from a nation but from love or home, and displaced in subtler ways . . . Ultimately, Nguyen enlarges empathy, the high ideal of literature and the enemy of hate and fear.”―New York
“The 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner returns with a beautifully crafted collection that explores the netherworld of Vietnamese refugees, whose lives and cultural dislocation he dissects with precision and grace.”―O, The Oprah Magazine
“The Refugees is both timely, given the current debate about refugees in America, and timeless in its exploration of universal human struggles. This gorgeous collection of short stories recalls Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies, but with Vietnam as the loose center around which the richly drawn characters orbit . . . The writing in The Refugees is resonant and evocative, abounding with delightful descriptions . . . A must-read.”―Associated Press
“[A] quietly profound peek into the lives of Vietnam’s deracinated and dispossessed . . . Absorb[s] both the nostalgia and bitterness that have characterized so many refugees in the decades since 1975, when South Vietnam fell to the communist North and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese began streaming out of their homeland.”―San Francisco Chronicle
“The Refugees showcases the same astute and penetrating intelligence that characterized [Nguyen’s] Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer . . . Nguyen is an expert on prickly family dynamics . . . He can also be a sly humorist . . . The Refugees confirms Nguyen as an agile, trenchant writer, able to inhabit a number of contrary points of view. And it whets your appetite for his next novel.”―Seattle Times
“A terrific new book of short stories . . . Nguyen is an exceptional storyteller who packs an enormous amount of information and images into a short work . . . Nguyen’s vision of the Vietnamese migration to the United States and its impact on the nation is complex. His message is not Pollyannaish or demonizing . . . Nguyen’s message, instead, is that they are people, like all of us, with complicated lives and histories. ”―Chicago Tribune
“[A] timely story collection . . . As our first major Vietnamese-American writer, Nguyen is a prodigious genius making up for lost time.”―Newsday
“The perfect book to read at this historical moment in America . . . With the self-reflection of memoir and the clear-eyed, impartial narration of a history, Nguyen takes readers deep inside his characters in a mere few pages . . . Eye-opening . . . Read it now, or read it later―but read it.”―Huffington Post
“Delicately captures the traumas and triumphs of the migrant experience . . . [A] poignant collection of short stories . . . Powerful . . . Nguyen’s stories are to be admired for their ability to encompass not only the trauma of forced migration but also the grand themes of identity, the complications of love and sexuality, and the general awkwardness of being . . . They are also humorous and smart . . . Nguyen writes . . . with a unique poetry.”―Financial Times (UK)
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Thank you, Viet Thanh Nguyen
By Eric Selby
Thank You, Viet Thanh Nguyen!
Eric Selby
In “War Years,” the first-person narrator retrospectively takes us back to his early teens when his parents owned a store stocked with items the refugees from Viet Nam liked. So let me give you a taste of just how wonderful—and occasionally humorous—this collection of stories is.
My parents did not grant me so much as an allowance. When I had asked for one in the
fourth grade, my father had frowned and said, “Let me think it over.” The next night he
handed me an itemized list of expenses that included my birth, feeding, education, and
clothing, the sum total being $24,376. “This doesn’t include emotional aggravation,
compound interest, or future expenses,” my father said. “Now when can you start
paying me an allowance?
I have read the author’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, The Sympathizer, five—yes, five—times. In fact I led a group of senior citizens—I am one too—at our Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Everyone found the novel just amazing.
And so is this collection of short stories, all about refugees as the title says, not immigrants. The distinction is important in the fictional world this amazing writer has created. Refugees are desperate. We must remember this: millions of non-communists were left in Vietnam after the United States left to fend for themselves against the communists who had taken control. Yes, so many became boat people, many of whom drowned. So the cast of characters in these eight stories are among those who made it to the United States where life, although easier than in their homeland, was hard as so often is the case for people who come to this country.
Today we are being treated to a Trumpian display of fear of “the other” when, in fact, this was once a country that truly believed what Emma Lazarus wrote, “Give me your…” inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.
In one story, a late teenage boy arrives in San Francisco, sponsored by a do-gooder with lots of money, where he finds himself desperate for work and some type of good life. “Transplant” is one of my favorites: a Latino in need of a liver transplant is storing in his garage knock-offs of Versace, Chanel and Louis Vuitton pedaled by Louis Vu (which apparently is a very common Vietnamese last name). But you might say the name itself is a knock-off. But enough of that or I’ll be called a spoiler.
Some stories are told in first person, others in second. One of the first person narrators in a ghost writer who also sees ghosts (ghosts are big in Pulitzer novel.
There is a good reason for all the high star ratings: writing doesn’t get any better than that of Viet Thanh Nguyen.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Another home run by a talented author and spokesperson for the Vietnamese community !
By Bruce Miller
I don't think that I got my monies worth from this book because of its brevity, and the fact, that I felt left hanging at the end of each of the short stories portrayed. Nevertheless, it was an excellent compilation of very believable, real life stories of the refugees and those that were left behind from split families. I had two tours of duty in Viet Nam as "tee wee" and "Di wee" so in many ways the stories had a very special meaning for me and I felt a great deal of empathy for those persons and families that were portrayed. I think each story could have easily been the subject of a full scale novel and I hope the author will consider this in the future. I enjoyed the Sympathizer by the same author and was hoping for another novel along the same subject lines. Especially poignant was the story of the fashionable woman who attempted to "shake down" the small business owners in the community for cash contributions for continued military actions in Viet Nam. Overall a great story, and I take back my first sentence, it was a lot of bang for the buck !
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Impressive stories
By Roger Deblanck
Nguyen follows up his instant classic The Sympathizer with an equally impressive collection of short stories in The Refugees. With heartrending and tender emotion, he captures the struggles and hopes of an unforgettable array of immigrant and native characters of Vietnamese heritage. Each finely-crafted piece carries a subtle power and beauty in the dignity and quiet resilience of the characters as they face the hardships of loss, regret, failure, and alienation in either their home country or their adopted America. Through the wounded memories and life-altering experiences of both courageous men and women, Nguyen generates great empathy for their individual plights. The revelations they encounter are touching and poignant, oftentimes packing a force that breaks your heart. The graceful texture of Nguyen’s language and the vividness of his images and details harness the near perfection of this volume. With his two stellar works of fiction, Nguyen has quickly and deservedly earned his claim among the giants of contemporary literature. I can hardly wait for his next project.
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