The Refugees

Resumen del libro

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, 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.

Biografía del autor

Viet Thanh Nguyen (1971) nació en Vietnam y creció en Estados Unidos. Es el ganador del Premio Pulitzer de Ficción 2016 por la novela The Sympathizer. Es autor de los libros académicos Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War y Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. Desde hace muchos años ejerce como crítico cultural para Los Angeles Times e imparte clases de Literatura Inglesa y American Studies and Ethnicity en la Universidad de Southern California. Es editor del blog Diacritics.org, centrado en el arte, la cultura y la política vietnamitas desde la diáspora . Vive en Los Ángeles.