The Gangster We Are All Looking for

The highly acclaimed novel that reveals the life of a Vietnamese family in America through the knowing...
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Author: Thi Diem Thuy Le
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The Gangster We Are All Looking for by Le, Thi Diem Thuy

The Gangster We Are All Looking for

Dhs. 109.58

The Gangster We Are All Looking for

Dhs. 109.58
Author: Thi Diem Thuy Le
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The highly acclaimed novel that reveals the life of a Vietnamese family in America through the knowing eyes of a child finding her place and voice in a new country.

"A brilliant evocation of human sorrow and desire.... Heartbreaking and exhilarating." --The New York Times Book Review

In 1978 six refugees--a girl, her father, and four "uncles"--are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the child's imagination, the world is transmuted into an unearthly realm: she sees everything intensely, hears the distress calls of inanimate objects, and waits for her mother to join her. But life loses none of its strangeness when the family is reunited. As the girl grows, her matter-of-fact innocence eddies increasingly around opaque and ghostly traumas: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland, the memory of a brother who drowned and, most inescapable, her father's hopeless rage.

Author: Thi Diem Thuy Le
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 05/11/2004
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 8.21h x 4.96w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780375700026

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.7
Point Value: 6
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 70634 / Gangster We Are All Looking for


Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 09/01/2004 pg. 23
School Library Journal 03/01/2005 pg. 70

About the Author
lê thi diem thúy [pronounced LAY TEE YIM TWEE] born in Phan Thiet, southern Vietnam. She and her father left Vietnam in 1978, by boat, eventually settling in Southern California. lê is currently a Radcliffe Fellow and resides in western Massachusetts.

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