Ru - Kim Thuy
- In French. First published in 2011.
A woman travels through the memories of her childhood from her golden cage in Saigon, the arrival of communism in South Vietnam, her fleeing into the belly of a ship along the Gulf of Siam, her confinement in a refugee camp in Malaysia, to the first shivers in the cold of Quebec.
-> Overwhelming, as the path of one's life taken apart by the folly of fellow men and its necessary rebuilding, piece by piece, elsewhere. Fair and emotional tone, mixing réalism and optimism. Beautiful lesson of life.
A woman travels through the memories of her childhood from her golden cage in Saigon, the arrival of communism in South Vietnam, her fleeing into the belly of a ship along the Gulf of Siam, her confinement in a refugee camp in Malaysia, to the first shivers in the cold of Quebec.
-> Overwhelming, as the path of one's life taken apart by the folly of fellow men and its necessary rebuilding, piece by piece, elsewhere. Fair and emotional tone, mixing réalism and optimism. Beautiful lesson of life.