Em

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Price
$21.95  $20.41
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Publish Date
Pages
160
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.3 X 0.8 inches | 0.65 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781644211151

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About the Author
Born in Saigon in 1968, Kim Thúy left Vietnam with the boat people when she was 10 and settled in Quebec with her family. As well as being a writer, she has degrees in translation and law and has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer and restaurant owner. Her debut novel, Ru, was published in 2009 and became a bestseller in Quebec and in France, garnering several prestigious literary awards, including a Governor General's Award in 2010. Translation rights have been sold in twenty-eight languages. She has also written À toi (Yours), with Pascal Janovjak, Mãn and Vi--in addition to a cookbook, Le Secret des Vietnamiennes (Secrets from My Vietnamese Kitchen).

SHEILA FISCHMAN is the award-winning translator of some 150 contemporary novels from Quebec. In 2008 she was awarded the Molson Prize in the Arts. She is a Member of the Order of Canada and a chevalier of the Ordre national du Québec. She lives in Montreal.
Reviews
"Em's concise approach achieves wonders by delivering a big story in a small space."
- John Self, The Irish Times, on Em being shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award

"Just like tender, strong and graceful Vietnamese silk threads, Kim Thúy masterfully weaves us through Vietnam's 20th-century history while binding us to the lives of its people so that their experiences expand our worldview. EM is an original, innovative, poetic and haunting novel that deserves to be read, shared, studied and discussed."
- Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, internationally best-selling author of The Mountains Sing.

"A constellation of connected characters provides a snapshot of Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora in North America from French colonization to life after the war. ... A brief, moving meditation on the nature of truth, memory, humanity, and violence: a powerful work of art."
- Kirkus Reviews

"Expertly handled by her long-time translator, Sheila Fischman, the text juxtaposes horror and beauty to lasting effect. The prose is poised and elegant even when describing atrocity. ... This is Thúy's most ambitious and affecting book yet. Both sprawling and intimate, Em amplifies her storytelling and is a moving memorial to survivors and those who perished alike."
- Quill & Quire, starred review (Canada)