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From the winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ` Nguyen`s eight heart-wrenching & hopeful stories ought to be required reading for every politician in this era of wall-building & xenophobia` the Guardian In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland & 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 & 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 & hardships of immigration. The second piece of fiction by a major new voice, The Refugees is a beautifully written & sharply observed book about the aspirations of those who leave one country for another, & the relationships & desires for self-fulfillment that define our lives.` With anger but not despair, with reconciliation but not unrealistic hope, & with genuine humour that is not used to diminish anyone, Nguyen has breathed life into many unforgettable characters, & given us a timely book focusing, in the words of Willa Cather, on ”the slow working out of fate in people of allied sentiment & allied blood”` the Guardian

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