Vu Tran è un acclamato autore il cui romanzo d'esordio ha ottenuto un riconoscimento significativo, entrando a far parte di prestigiose liste dei migliori libri dell'anno. La sua narrativa breve è apparsa in antologie molto apprezzate, dimostrando la sua maestria nella forma narrativa concisa. La scrittura di Tran si distingue per la sua voce unica e la sua acuta esplorazione di temi complessi, addentrandosi spesso nelle sfumature dell'identità e dell'appartenenza. Il suo lavoro offre ai lettori una prospettiva avvincente sulla condizione umana, resa con meticolosa maestria.
A memoir in graphic novel format about the author's experiences as the son of Vietnamese immigrants who fled to America during the fall of Saigon describes how he learned his tragic ancestral history and the impact of the Vietnam War on his family while visiting their homeland years later
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year "Note-perfect. Heartbreaking. Profound…[A] polished dagger of a novel that will cut out your heart." —Charles Bock, New York Times best-selling author of Beautiful Children Robert, an Oakland cop, still can’t let go of Suzy, the mysterious Vietnamese wife who left him. Now she’s disappeared from her new husband, Sonny, a violent smuggler who blackmails Robert into finding her. Searching for Suzy in the sleek and seamy gambling dens of Las Vegas, Robert finds himself also chasing the past that haunts her—one that extends back to Vietnam and a refugee camp in Malaysia, and forward to Suzy’s estranged daughter, a poker shark now taking the future into her own hands.
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