Viet Thanh Nguyen

The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays “full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph” (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

When Simone is awakened by her mom as a wildfire threatens their home, it is the beginning of a life-changing journey. On their way to take shelter in a high school gym, the family passes firefighters from a prison unit battling the fire. Simone’s mom tells her that when she was a girl in Viet Nam, she was forced to evacuate her home after a flood. Joined by other children sheltering in the gym, Simone, a budding artist, encourages everyone to draw as a way to process their situation. After a few days, Simone and her mom are able to return to their home, which is fortunately still standing and her outlook has changed. As Simone begins creating a piece of art with one of her new friends, she realises that even though they are young, they can dream and work together for a more sustainable future. With a poetic, haunting family story by esteemed author Viet Thanh Nguyen and gorgeous art from illustrator Minnie Phan, this powerful tale introduces an unforgettable young heroine who awakens to a new role fighting for her community and for the future of the planet.

To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

“A wondrously limpid testament to the pleasures of reading.” —Steven Poole, The GuardianSix incandescent lectures on literature from the patron saint of mirrors, metafiction, and infinite libraries. For more than thirty years, Jorge Luis Borges’s Norton Lectures went unpublished. Recorded at Harvard in 1967 and 1968, the tapes gathered dust in a library vault until their discovery after his death. It was a twist that the author of Labyrinths would have relished. This volume assembles the recovered materials, offering a priceless window into the Argentinian master’s lifelong love affair with the English language. This Craft of Verse captures the cadences, candor, wit, and erudition of one of the twentieth century’s enduring literary voices. Though his avowed topic is poetry, Borges explores subjects ranging from prose forms—especially the novel—to literary history, translation theory, and philosophical aspects of communication writ large. Borges here draws on a wide range of literary examples—modern and medieval English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, and Chinese. He brings characteristic eloquence and inexhaustible enthusiasm to readings of Plato, the Old Norse kenningar, Byron, Poe, Chesterton, Joyce, and Frost, as well as translations of Homer, the Bible, and the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Whether discussing metaphor, the origins of verse, or his own “poetic creed,” Borges gives a performance as entertaining as it is intellectually engaging. A lesson in the love of literature and the making of a unique artistic sensibility, This Craft of Verse is a sustained encounter with one of the writers whose place in the twentieth century will be forever remembered.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity. Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet Nguyen arrived in the United States as a child refugee in 1975. The Nguyen family would soon move to San Jose, California, where the author grew up, attending UC Berkeley in the aftermath of the shocking murder of Vincent Chin, which shaped the political sensibilities of a new generation of Asian Americans. The essays here, delivered originally as the prestigious Norton Lectures, proffer a new answer to a classic literary question: What does the outsider mean to literary writing? Over the course of six captivating and moving chapters, Nguyen explores the idea of being an outsider through lenses that are, by turns, literary, historical, political, and familial. Each piece moves between writers who influenced Nguyen’s craft and weaves in the haunting story of his late mother’s mental illness. Nguyen unfolds the novels and nonfiction of Herman Melville, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, William Carlos Williams, and Maxine Hong Kingston, until aesthetic theories give way to pressing concerns raised by war and politics. What is a writer’s responsibility in a time of violence? Should we celebrate fiction that gives voice to the voiceless—or do we confront the forces that render millions voiceless in the first place? What are the burdens and pleasures of the “minor” writer in any society? Unsatisfied with the modest inclusion accorded to “model minorities” such as Asian Americans, Nguyen sets the agenda for a more radical and disquieting solidarity with those whose lives have been devastated by imperialism and forever wars.

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDThe highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwideWith insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and incisive analysis, as well as a deep emotional openness about his life as a father and a son. At the age of four, Nguyen and his family are forced to flee his hometown of Ban M Thuột and come to the USA as refugees. After being removed from his brother and parents and homed with a family on his own, Nguyen is later allowed to resettle into his own family in suburban San Jos . But there is violence hidden behind the sunny fa ade of what he calls AMERICATM. One Christmas Eve, when Nguyen is nine, while watching cartoons at home, he learns that his parents have been shot while working at their grocery store, the S iG n Mới, a place where he sometimes helps price tins of fruit with a sticker gun. Years later, as a teenager, the blood-stirring drama of the films of the Vietnam War such as Apocalypse Now throw Nguyen into an existential crisis: how can he be both American and Vietnamese, both the killer and the person being killed? When he learns about an adopted sister who has stayed back in Vietnam, and ultimately visits her, he grows to understand just how much his parents have left behind. And as his parents age, he worries increasingly about their comfort and care, and realizes that some of their older wounds are reopening. Profound in its emotions and brilliant in its thinking about cultural power, A Man of Two Faces explores the necessity of both forgetting and of memory, the promises America so readily makes and breaks, and the exceptional life story of one of the most original and important writers working today.

The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, a novel which sold over one million copies worldwide and is soon to be a HBO series starring Sandra Oh and Robert Downey Jr.

Den Pulitzerbelönade romanen bakom HBO-serien The Sympathizer! Sympatisören är en rafflande berättelse som med en stor dos satir kastar nytt ljus över ett krig som USA förvisso förlorade, men som de fram tills nu fått kontrollera berättelsen om. Viet Thanh Nguyens debutroman Sympatisören fick ett enormt genomslag när den gavs ut i USA och fick ta emot en lång rad utmärkelser, däribland det prestigefyllda Pulitzerpriset 2016. Berättelsen om den namnlöse dubbelagenten är lika mycket en spionhistoria som det är en litterär uppgörelse med Vietnamkriget, skriven med ett enormt driv och kryddad med humor och ironiska iakttagelser. Viet Thanh Nguyen föddes 1971 i Vietnam men växte upp i USA, dit han som fyraåring flydde tillsammans med sina föräldrar. Han är professor i Ethnic studies vid University of Southern California och medverkar regelbundet som krönikör i New York Times och Los Angeles Times, där han gjort sig ett namn som en radikal röst i bland annat flyktingfrågan. Tranan har även givit ut novellsamlingen Flyktingar samt Sympatisörens fristående fortsättning De hängivna. Gemensamt för hans böcker är utforskandet av Vietnamkrigets efterverkningar. »Alla krigutkämpas två gånger«, har han skrivit, »första gången på slagfältet,andra gången i minnet.« Hans Berggren är översättare från engelska och portugisiska. Han har tidigare översatt bland andra Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie och José Saramago.

I De hängivna återvänder Viet Thanh Nguyen till sin kommunist­iske spion från den Pulitzer­pris­belönade romanen Sympatisören. Boken är en uppföljare men kan också läsas helt fristående, genom en skicklig balansakt från en författare som med den här boken tagit ytterligare ett steg mot att bli en litterär superstjärna i USA. Nguyen har hyllats för sin unika förmåga att på ett under­hållande och spänningsfyllt sätt ta sig an vår tids stora frågor om identitet och rasism i en litterär form. De hängivna utspelas i Paris i början av 80-talet, dit Nguyens berättare lyckats ta sig efter att ha blivit släppt ur det omskol­ningsläger där han befann sig i Sympatisören. I Paris ägnar han sig sin omskolning till trots åt kapi­ta­lis­mens yttersta utpost: drog­handel. Han får kontakt med en grupp parisiska vänsterintellektuella som för honom innebär såväl viss intellektuell stimu­lans som ett bra kund­underlag. Men efter hand dras han även in i en konflikt i den undre världen, där det myllrar av hårdföra algerier, kam­bod­janska hal­lickar, vietnamesiska gangsters och andra spöken från den franska kolonialismen. VIET THANH NGUYEN föddes 1971 i Vietnam men växte upp i USA, dit han som fyraåring flydde tillsammans med sina föräldrar. Han är professor vid University of Southern California och medverkar regelbundet som skribent i bland annat New York Times och Time Magazine, där han gjort sig ett namn som en stark röst för den asiatisk-amerikanska minoriteten i USA. 2020 utsågs han till hedersdoktor vid Uppsala universitet. Sympatisören innebar ett stort genombrott och belönades utöver Pulitzerpriset med ytterligare sju priser. Den har i dagsläget sålt över en miljon böcker och blivit tv-serie. Av Nguyen har Tranan även givit ut novellsamlingen Flyktingar. Gemensamt för hans böcker är utforskandet av Vietnamkrigets efterverkningar. »Alla krig utkämpas två gånger«, har han skrivit, »första gången på slagfältet, andra gången i minnet.« HANS BERGGREN är översättare från engelska och portugisiska. Han har tidigare översatt bland andra Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie och Jose Saramago.

With a new foreword by Viet Thanh NguyenA beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Beyond Vietnam,” part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. At New York City's Riverside Church in 1967, Dr. King stood in front of a rapt audience and criticized the Vietnam War as a destructive act of force and a cruel manipulation of the poor—for those fighting on either side. He urged Americans to confront the harsh realities of war and consequently pursue a path where everyone is presented a choice, in his words, "a choice of nonviolent coexistence instead of violent coannihilation.” This beautifully designed hardcover edition presents Dr. King’s speech in its entirety, paying tribute to this extraordinary leader and his immeasurable contribution, and inspiring a new generation of activists dedicated to carrying on the fight for justice and equality.

The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwideWith insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and incisive analysis, as well as a deep emotional openness about his life as a father and a son. At the age of four, Nguyen and his family are forced to flee his hometown of Ban M Thuột and come to the USA as refugees. After being removed from his brother and parents and homed with a family on his own, Nguyen is later allowed to resettle into his own family in suburban San Jos . But there is violence hidden behind the sunny fa ade of what he callsAMERICA TM. One Christmas Eve, when Nguyen is nine, while watching cartoons at home, he learns that his parents have been shot while working at their grocery store, the S iG n Mới, a place where he sometimes helps price tins of fruit with a sticker gun. Years later, as a teenager, the blood-stirring drama of the films of the Vietnam War such as Apocalypse Now throw Nguyen into an existential crisis: how can he be both American and Vietnamese, both the killer and the person being killed? When he learns about an adopted sister who has stayed back in Vietnam, and ultimately visits her, he grows to understand just how much his parents have left behind. And as his parents age, he worries increasingly about their comfort and care, and realizes that some of their older wounds are reopening, Profound in its emotions and brilliant in its thinking about cultural power, A Man of Two Faces explores the necessity of both forgetting and of memory, the promises America so readily makes and breaks, and the exceptional life story of one of the most original and important writers working today.

""Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the immigrant experience in America."" –Publishers Weekly"[These contributions] touch on so many different facets of the immigrant experience that readers will find much to ponder... [and] experience how creative writing enriches our understanding of each other and our lives." –BooklistIntroduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet Thanh NguyenA unique collection of 41 groundbreaking essays, poems, and artwork by migrants, refugees and Dreamers—including award-winning writers, artists, and activists—that illuminate what it is like living undocumented today. In the overheated debate about immigration, we often lose sight of the humanity at the heart of this complex issue. The immigrants and refugees living precariously in the United States are mothers and fathers, children, neighbors, and friends. Individuals propelled by hope and fear, they gamble their lives on the promise of America, yet their voices are rarely heard. This anthology of essays, poetry, and art seeks to shift the immigration debate—now shaped by rancorous stereotypes and xenophobia—towards one rooted in humanity and justice. Through their storytelling and art, the contributors to this thought-provoking book remind us that they are human still. Transcending their current immigration status, they offer nuanced portraits of their existence before and after migration, the factors behind their choices, the pain of leaving their homeland and beginning anew in a strange country, and their collective hunger for a future not defined by borders. Created entirely by undocumented or formerly undocumented migrants, Somewhere We Are Human is a journey of memory and yearning from people newly arrived to America, those who have been here for decades, and those who have ultimately chosen to leave or were deported. Touching on themes of race, class, gender, nationality, sexuality, politics, and parenthood, Somewhere We Are Human reveals how joy, hope, mourning, and perseverance can take root in the toughest soil and bloom in the harshest conditions.

'A voice that shakes the walls of the old literary comfort zone' New Yorker 'Goes toe to toe with the original then surpasses it. A masterwork' Marlon James, Booker Prize-winning author of a Brief History of Seven Killings'Fierce and unrelentingly good. Hilarious and subversive' Tommy Orange, New York Times bestselling author of There There------------------------------------It's the early 1980s and the Sympathizer arrives in Paris. As a refugee, he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their turbulent pasts by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, the Sympathizer is both charmed and disturbed by Paris. Falling in with left-wing intellectuals and politicians at dinner parties held by his French Vietnamese "aunt", he finds customers for his merchandise as well as stimulation for his mind. But this new life he's living has unforeseen dangers of oppression, addiction and the seemingly unresolvable paradox of reuniting his two closest friends, men whose world views stand them poles apart. The highly suspenseful sequel to The Sympathizer, both literary thriller and brilliant novel of ideas, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen's position in the firmament of American letters.

'Call The Committed many things. A white hot literary thriller disguised as a searing novel of ideas. An unflinching look at redemption and damnation. An unblinking examination of the dangers of belief, and the need to believe. A sequel that goes toe to toe with the original then surpasses it. A masterwork' Marlon James, Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven KillingsThe long-awaited new novel from one of America's most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Committed follows the Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still inwardly tortured by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, and struggling to assimilate into a dominant culture, the Sympathizer is both charmed and disturbed by Paris. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals and politicians who frequent dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese "aunt," he finds not just stimulation for his mind but also customers for his merchandise - but the new life he is making has dangers he has not foreseen, from the oppression of the state, to the self-torture of addiction, to the seemingly unresolvable paradox of how he can reunite his two closest friends, men whose worldviews put them in absolute opposition. Both literary thriller and brilliant novel of ideas, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen's position in the firmament of American letters.'Here it is, with perfect timing, a novel that anyone who is part of a colonising or colonised nation - and that includes, of course, America - should read . . . Nguyen is a craftsman . . . And then there's the sharp humour . . . Like The Sympathizer, it amounts to much more than the sum of its parts. These two novels constitute a powerful challenge to an enduring narrative of colonialism and neo-colonialism. One waits to see what Nguyen, and the man of two faces, will do next' the Guardian'If The Sympathizer was ostensibly a spy novel, then The Committed is a gangland thriller . . . Two contemporary classics for your bedside table' The Telegraph, five star review

The long-awaited new novel from one of America's most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Committed follows the Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still inwardly tortured by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, and struggling to assimilate into a dominant culture, the Sympathizer is both charmed and disturbed by Paris. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals and politicians who frequent dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese "aunt," he finds not just stimulation for his mind but also customers for his merchandise--but the new life he is making has dangers he has not foreseen, from the oppression of the state, to the self-torture of addiction, to the seemingly unresolvable paradox of how he can reunite his two closest friends, men whose worldviews put them in absolute opposition. Both literary thriller and brilliant novel of ideas, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen's position in the firmament of American letters.

»Novellerna i Flyktingar är så perfekt skrivna att det är bäst att förbjuda boken på skrivarkurser annars kommer eleverna att drabbas av kollektiv depression och ta jobb på reklambyrå.« Mikael Timm i P1»Det känns som att det är första gången jag verkligen börjar förstå hur det känns att inte höra hemma någonstans. Många har skrivit om kriget och migrationen, men här möter vi människor och delar deras vilsenhet, deras hemlängtan och drömmar om det nya livet som väntar.« Ulla Strängberg i Jönköpings-PostenTill alla flyktingar överallt -- så inleder Viet Thanh Nguyen sin novellsamling Flyktingar. I åtta berättelser skildrar han människor som står med fötterna i två världar, med dubbla identiteter och vacklande lojaliteter. Några har kommit med båt från Vietnam till USA och försöker navigera mellan det nya och det gamla landets förväntningar på dem. Andra har blivit kvar, med en stark längtan efter ett liv på andra sidan havet. Några ser framat, andra bakåt -- och alla har de sina drömmar. Viet Thanh Nguyen, själv flykting från Vietnam, följer upp den Pultizerprisvinnande romanen Sympatisören med en novellsamling som hyllats av en unison amerikansk kritikerkår. Med ett kristallklart språk fullt av skarpsynta betraktelser undersöker han i sina berättelser migrationens och krigets påverkan på den enskilda människan. Viet Thanh Nguyen föddes 1971 i Vietnam men växte upp i USA, dit han som fyraåring flydde tillsammans med sina föräldrar. Han är professor i Ethnic studies vid University of Southern California och nyutsedd hedersdoktor vid Uppsala universitet. Nguyen medverkar regelbundet som krönikör i New York Times och Los Angeles Times, där han gjort sig ett namn som en radikal röst i bland annat flyktingfrågan. Hans debutroman Sympatisören fick ett enormt genomslag när den gavs ut i USA och fick ta emot en lång rad utmärkelser, däribland det prestigefyllda Pulitzerpriset 2016. Boken togs emot som ett hett efterlängtat vietnamesiskt perspektiv på Vietnamkriget. Nguyen skriver just nu på en uppföljare till den boken. Hans Berggren är översättare från engelska och portugisiska. Han har tidigare översatt bland andra Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie och José Saramago. »Viet Thanh Nguyen är en av våra främsta migrationsskildrare.« Joyce Carol Oates »En superb samling.« New York Times Book Review»Med udda vinklingar och stark närvaro skapar Viet Thanh Nguyen plats för frågorna om identitet, ställda på ett sätt som ger känslan av att vi alla är flyktingar. Djupast sett.« Maria Schottenius i Dagens Nyheter»Jag tycker [ ] att han talar klarspråk, utan att ursäkta sig eller kompromissa litterärt. Att läsa Hans Berggrens översättning är en ren njutning. Mellan rivstarter och stundom prydliga punchlines till slut bärs dessa berättelser om flykt och identitet fram på en tät men enkel prosa, en sådan där man till synes motståndslöst glider in i de stora frågorna.« Viktoria Jäderling i Aftonbladet»I en tid med frågor om autofiktion, autenticitet och kulturell appropriering ständigt på agendan tycks det mig upplyftande med en författare som så uppenbart bottnar existentiellt, kulturellt, intellektuellt och emotionellt i vad han beskriver och precis just därför kan tillåta sig att vara motsägelsefull, dikta fritt och tala bredvid sig själv.« Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson i Göteborgs-Posten»Man kan läsa Flyktingar som flykting själv, för identifikation och insikt om hur andra hanterat omställningen. Man kan läsa den som infödd svensk, för att bättre förstå alla människor som har kommit till vårt land och vilka erfarenheter som har präglat dem. Och man kan läsa Flyktingar utan att ens vara intresserad av dessa specifika erfarenheter, ty framför allt berättar novellsamlingen om människor och alla de tankar och känslor som vi delar oavsett var i världen vi bor och oavsett om vi rest över hela planeten eller blivit kvar i hembyn.« Kristian Ekenberg i Gävle Dagblad

»Novellerna i Flyktingar är så perfekt skrivna att det är bäst att förbjuda boken på skrivarkurser annars kommer eleverna att drabbas av kollektiv depression och ta jobb på reklambyrå.« Mikael Timm i P1 Kulturnytt 2020-01-07Till alla flyktingar överallt så inleder Viet Thanh Nguyen sin novellsamling Flyktingar. I åtta berättelser skildrar han människor som står med fötterna i två världar, med dubbla identiteter och vacklande lojaliteter. Några har kommit med båt från Vietnam till USA och försöker navigera mellan det nya och det gamla landets förväntningar på dem. Andra har blivit kvar, med en stark längtan efter ett liv på andra sidan havet. Några ser framat, andra bakåt och alla har de sina drömmar. Viet Thanh Nguyen, själv flykting från Vietnam, följer upp den Pultizerprisvinnande romanen Sympatisören med en novellsamling som hyllats av en unison amerikansk kritikerkår. Med ett kristallklart språk fullt av skarpsynta betraktelser undersöker han i sina berättelser migrationens och krigets påverkan på den enskilda människan. Viet Thanh Nguyen föddes 1971 i Vietnam men växte upp i USA, dit han som fyraåring flydde tillsammans med sina föräldrar. Han är professor i Ethnic studies vid University of Southern California och nyutsedd hedersdoktor vid Uppsala universitet. Nguyen medverkar regelbundet som krönikör i New York Times och Los Angeles Times, där han gjort sig ett namn som en radikal röst i bland annat flyktingfrågan. Hans debutroman Sympatisören (Tranan 2018) fick ett enormt genomslag när den gavs ut i USA och fick ta emot en lång rad utmärkelser, däribland det prestigefyllda Pulitzerpriset 2016. Boken togs emot som ett hett efterlängtat vietnamesiskt perspektiv på Vietnamkriget. Nguyen skriver just nu på en uppföljare till den boken. Hans Berggren är översättare från engelska och portugisiska. Han har tidigare översatt bland andra Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie och José Saramago." Viet Thanh Nguyen är en av våra främsta migrationsskildrare." Joyce Carol Oates "En superb samling." New York Times Book Review

An apprentice sushi chef and a mysterious blue-eyed woman share a bottle of wine inside a climate-controlled otter tank. The Great Wall of China grumbles as workers forego construction to watch an imperial game of baseball. A young woman tries to imagine a future unsullied by her family's history of untimely death. First issued in 1991, Pangs of Love introduced David Wong Louie's bold storytelling. The son of Chinese immigrants, he centered his stories around characters who are in conflict with their place in the world, disconnected from both American society and their own families. The depth of his portrayals renders their experiences of love, envy, loneliness, loss, and duty universal—informed by their heritage yet not confined by it. These twelve short stories and one essay swerve from the absurd to longing for love, understanding, or simply a morsel of food. Pangs of Love and Other Writings makes Louie's debut book available again, along with an additional short story and an extraordinary autobiographical essay, "Eat, Memory," in which he reflects on life without food after throat cancer took away his ability to swallow. Pulitzer Prize–winner Viet Thanh Nguyen contributes a foreword elucidating Louie's role in shaping contemporary Asian American literature, while an afterword by literary scholar King-Kok Cheung retraces the three phases of Louie's career.

An apprentice sushi chef and a mysterious blue-eyed woman share a bottle of wine inside a climate-controlled otter tank. The Great Wall of China grumbles as workers forego construction to watch an imperial game of baseball. A young woman tries to imagine a future unsullied by her family's history of untimely death. First issued in 1991, Pangs of Love introduced David Wong Louie's bold storytelling. The son of Chinese immigrants, he centered his stories around characters who are in conflict with their place in the world, disconnected from both American society and their own families. The depth of his portrayals renders their experiences of love, envy, loneliness, loss, and duty universal—informed by their heritage yet not confined by it. These twelve short stories and one essay swerve from the absurd to longing for love, understanding, or simply a morsel of food. Pangs of Love and Other Writings makes Louie's debut book available again, along with an additional short story and an extraordinary autobiographical essay, "Eat, Memory," in which he reflects on life without food after throat cancer took away his ability to swallow. Pulitzer Prize–winner Viet Thanh Nguyen contributes a foreword elucidating Louie's role in shaping contemporary Asian American literature, while an afterword by literary scholar King-Kok Cheung retraces the three phases of Louie's career.