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Vi

Auteur(s): Kim Thúy, Sheila Fischman - translator
Narrateur(s): Kim Thúy
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The perfect complement to the exquisitely wrought novels Ru and Mãn, Canada Reads winner Kim Thúy returns with Vi, exploring the lives, loves and struggles of Vietnamese refugees as they reinvent themselves in new lands.

The daughter of an enterprising mother and a wealthy, spoiled father who never had to grow up, Vi was the youngest of their four children and the only girl. They gave her a name that meant "precious, tiny one," destined to be cosseted and protected, the family's little treasure.
     But the Vietnam War destroys life as they've known it. Vi, along with her mother and brothers, manages to escape--but her father stays behind, leaving a painful void as the rest of the family must make a new life for themselves in Canada.
     While her family puts down roots, life has different plans for Vi. Taken under the wing of Hà, a worldly family friend, and her diplomat lover, Vi tests personal boundaries and crosses international ones, letting the winds of life buffet her. From Saigon to Montreal, from Suzhou to Boston to the fall of the Berlin Wall, she is witness to the immensity of geography, the intricate fabric of humanity, the complexity of love, the infinite possibilities before her. Ever the quiet observer, somehow Vi must find a way to finally take her place in the world.

©2018 Kim Thuy (P)2018 Random House Canada

Ce que les critiques en disent

Finalist for the 2019 Governor General's Literary Award in Translation

Nominated for the OLA Evergreen Award 2019

Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2018

“Thúy . . . bravely exposes the sordid reality of racism in Vietnam. . . . Vi, a fragment of the name Vincent, is another example of Thúy’s playfulness with words. In particular, Thúy studies distinctions between languages as if this scrutiny might divulge the reasons for distinctions between peoples. . . . [The] story feels freighted with history.” (Donna Bailey Nurse, Literary Review of Canada)

“Kim Thúy’s novels are as compact as her tiny titles might suggest... but their poetic contents punch well above their weight in terms of story and raw emotional heft.” (Becky Toyne, The Globe and Mail

“At once highly stylized and emotionally raw, Vi is as elegant, refined. Exquisite from start to finish.” (Toronto Star

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