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Monique Truong

    13 maggio 1968

    Monique Truong crea narrazioni che approfondiscono le complessità dell'identità e dell'esperienza storica, spesso incentrate sulla diaspora vietnamita. Le sue opere sono celebrate per la loro prosa ricca e la loro esplorazione acuta di temi come lo sradicamento, la memoria e la ricerca di appartenenza. Attraverso i suoi sforzi letterari, Truong offre una prospettiva distintiva sulle intersezioni tra cultura e viaggi personali. La sua scrittura si pone come un contributo significativo alla letteratura contemporanea, illuminando le sfumature dell'esistenza umana e il potere della narrazione.

    Bitter im Mund
    The Book of Salt
    The Sweetest Fruits
    • In The Sweetest Fruits, three women tell the story of their time with Lafcadio Hearn, a globetrotting writer best known for his books about Meiji-era Japan. Their accounts witness Hearn's remarkable life but also seek to witness their own existence and luminous will to live unbounded by gender, race, and the mores of their time.

      The Sweetest Fruits
      2,8
    • The Book of Salt

      • 272pagine
      • 10 ore di lettura

      Considering whether he will accompany his employers, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, to America, a personal cook remembers his youth in French-colonial Vietnam, his years as a galley hand at sea, and his days cooking for the doyennes of the Lost Generation. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

      The Book of Salt
      3,5
    • Linda, die eigentlich Linh-Dao heißt, hat eine besondere Gabe. Sie kann Worte schmecken. An diese Wahrnehmungen heften sich ihre Erinnerungen. Von ihrer frühen Kindheit aber ist ihr nur ein bitterer Geschmack im Mund geblieben, für den sie kein Wort findet. Auf der Suche nach dem Geheimnis ihrer Herkunft kehrt sie als junge Frau zurück in den Süden, nach North Carolina, wo sie als Linda Hammericks aufgewachsen ist.

      Bitter im Mund
      3,0