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Pin Cecile - Wandering Souls A Novel - Hardcover
Pin Cecile - Wandering Souls A Novel - Hardcover
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Description: One of Time Magazine's Must - Read Books of the Year Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Fiction 2024 Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 A deeply humane and genre - defying work of love and uncompromising hope. Ocean Vuong author of On Earth We re Briefly Gorgeous and Time Is a Mother There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies everything in between is speculation. After the last American troops leave Vietnam siblings Anh Minh and Thanh journey to Hong Kong with the promise that their parents and younger siblings will soon follow. But when tragedy strikes the three children are left orphaned and sixteen - year - old Anh becomes the caretaker for her two younger brothers overnight. In the years that follow Anh and her brothers immigrate to the UK living first in overcrowded camps and resettlement centers and then later in a modernizing London plagued by social inequality. Anh works in a factory to pay the bills. Minh loiters about with fellow high school dropouts. Thanh the youngest plays soccer with his friends after class. As they mature each sibling reckons with survivor's guilt unmoored by their parents absence. And with every choice their paths diverge further until it's unclear if love alone can keep them together. Told through lyrical narrative threads historical research voices from lost family and notes by an unnamed narrator determined to chart these siblings fates Wandering Souls captures the lives of a family marked by loss yet relentless in the pursuit of a better future. With urgency and precision it affirms that the most important stories are those we claim for ourselves establishing Cecile Pin as a masterful new literary voice.
Title: Wandering Souls A Novel
Author(s): Pin Cecile
Publisher: Henry Holt And Co.
Barcode: 9781250863461
Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/21/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: One of Time Magazine's Must - Read Books of the Year Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Fiction 2024 Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 A deeply humane and genre - defying work of love and uncompromising hope. Ocean Vuong author of On Earth We re Briefly Gorgeous and Time Is a Mother There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies everything in between is speculation. After the last American troops leave Vietnam siblings Anh Minh and Thanh journey to Hong Kong with the promise that their parents and younger siblings will soon follow. But when tragedy strikes the three children are left orphaned and sixteen - year - old Anh becomes the caretaker for her two younger brothers overnight. In the years that follow Anh and her brothers immigrate to the UK living first in overcrowded camps and resettlement centers and then later in a modernizing London plagued by social inequality. Anh works in a factory to pay the bills. Minh loiters about with fellow high school dropouts. Thanh the youngest plays soccer with his friends after class. As they mature each sibling reckons with survivor's guilt unmoored by their parents absence. And with every choice their paths diverge further until it's unclear if love alone can keep them together. Told through lyrical narrative threads historical research voices from lost family and notes by an unnamed narrator determined to chart these siblings fates Wandering Souls captures the lives of a family marked by loss yet relentless in the pursuit of a better future. With urgency and precision it affirms that the most important stories are those we claim for ourselves establishing Cecile Pin as a masterful new literary voice.
Title: Wandering Souls A Novel
Author(s): Pin Cecile
Publisher: Henry Holt And Co.
Barcode: 9781250863461
Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/21/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
