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Name: Ru
Rating: 3.555555555555 (9 reviews)
Author: Kim Thúy

📘 Ru by Kim Thúy

Kim Thúy's celebrated work blends the immediacy of a memoir with the lyrical resonance of fiction. It follows her migration from a grand residence in Saigon to the precarious life of a refugee camp in Malaysia, culminating in her resettlement in Quebec. Through luminous vignettes that combine verbal wit with keen observation, the narrative examines the dislocation and renewal that define the immigrant experience. The book has been translated into more than a dozen languages and has earned the Governor General’s Literary Award. Readers are offered a heartfelt exploration of identity, belonging, and cultural transition, framed by the personal recollections of a woman who has navigated the borderlands between Vietnam, Malaysia, and Canada.

First publish date: 2009

Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction

Authors: Kim Thúy

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