{"product_id":"chinatown-by-thuan","title":"Chinatown by Thuan","description":"\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eby Thuận, translated by Nguyễn An Lý\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of the 2023 ALTA National Translation Award\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eShortlisted for the 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of an English Pen Award\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn unfinished love story, humorous and haunting, of diasporic lives in Vietnam and France.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eThe Métro shudders to a halt: an unattended bag has been found. For the narrator, a Vietnamese woman teaching in the Parisian suburbs, a fantastical interior monologue begins, looking back to her childhood in early ‘80s Hanoi, university studies in Leningrad, and the travails and ironies of life in France as an immigrant and single mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eBut most of all she thinks of Chinese-Vietnamese Thụy, who she married in the aftermath of the Sino-Vietnamese war, much to her parents’ disapproval, and whom she has not seen now for eleven years. The mystery around his disappearance feeds her memories, dreams and speculations, in which the idea of Saigon’s Chinatown looms large. There’s even a novel-in-progress, titled \u003cem\u003eI’m Yellow, \u003c\/em\u003ewhose protagonist’s attempts to escape his circumstances mirror the author-narrator’s own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eInterspersed with extracts from \u003cem\u003eI’m Yellow\u003c\/em\u003e, the narrator's book-length monologue is an attempt, at once desperate, ironic, and self-deprecating, to come to terms with the passions that haunts her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003ePublication: 30 Jun 2022, Tilted Axis Press\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781911284673\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 192 pages \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57127549993342,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781911284673.jpg?v=1773654595","url":"https:\/\/www.davids-bookshops.co.uk\/products\/chinatown-by-thuan","provider":"David's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}