Viet Thanh Nguyen: A Man of Two Faces
A Man of Two Faces
Buch
- A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
- Grove Atlantic, 10/2023
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780802160508
- Bestellnummer: 11449811
- Umfang: 400 Seiten
- Gewicht: 862 g
- Maße: 231 x 155 mm
- Stärke: 36 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 3.10.2023
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
"With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and incisive analysis, as well as a deep emotional openness about his life as a father and a son. At the age of four, Nguyen and his family are forced to flee his hometown of Ban Mãe Thuot and come to the USA as refugees. After being removed from his brother and parents and homed with a family on his own, Nguyen is later allowed to resettle into his own family in suburban San Josâe. But there is violence hidden behind the sunny facade of what he calls AMERICA TM. One Christmas Eve, when Nguyen is nine, while watching cartoons at home, he learns that his parents have been shot while working at their grocery store, the SáaiGáon Moi, a place where he sometimes helps price tins of fruit with a sticker gun. Years later, as a teenager, the blood-stirring drama of the films of the Vietnam War such as Apocalypse Now throw Nguyen into an existential crisis: how can he be both American and Vietnamese, both the killer and the person being killed? When he learns about an adopted sister who has stayed back in Vietnam, and ultimately visits her, he grows to understand just how much his parents have left behind. And as his parents age, he worries increasingly about their comfort and care, and realizes that some of their older wounds are reopening.--Biografie
Viet Thanh Nguyen, geboren 1971 in Südvietnam, floh nach dem Fall von Saigon 1975 mit seinen Eltern in die USA. Er studierte Anglistik und Ethnic Studies in Berkeley und arbeitet seit seiner Promotion 1997 als Hochschullehrer an der University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Für sein Romandebüt, den internationalen Bestseller »Der Sympathisant« (Blessing, 2017), erhielt er 2016 den Pulitzer-Preis und den Edgar Award. Viet Thanh Nguyen
A Man of Two Faces
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