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Chinatown by Thuan [Thuân], Nguyen An Ly (translation) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Winner, 2023 National Translation Award in ProseAn exquisite & intense journey through the labyrinths of Hanoi, Leningrad, & Paris—through dreams, memory, & loss An abandoned package is discovered in the Paris Metro: the subway workers suspect it's a terrorist bomb. A Vietnamese woman sitting nearby, her son asleep on her shoulder, waits & begins to reflect on her life, from her constrained childhood in communist Hanoi, to a long period of study in Leningrad during the Gorbachev period, & finally to the Parisian suburbs where she now teaches English. Through everything runs her passion for Thuy, the father of her son, a writer who lives in Saigon's Chinatown, & who, with the shadow of the China-Vietnam border war falling darkly between them, she has not seen for eleven years.Through her breathless, vertiginous, & deeply moving monologue from beside the subway tracks, the narrator attempts to once & for all face the past & exorcize the passion that haunts her. °°° Thuân (Đoan Ánh Thuân) was born in 1967 in Hanoi. She studied at universities in Russia & France & now lives in Paris. Chinatown is her twelfth novel. She is a recipient of the Writers’ Union Prize, the highest award in Vi

Who reads Chinatown?

Author

Thuan [Thuân], Nguyen An Ly (translation)

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811231893

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Language Learning

Rating

3.81 / 5 (75 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14