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The gangster we are all looking for / Lé Thi Diem Thúy.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: Spanish Publication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2003.Edition: 1st edDescription: 160 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0375400184
  • 9780375400186
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 21
LOC classification:
  • PS 3612  D561g 2003
Online resources: Also issued online.
Contents:
Suh-top! -- Palm -- The gangster we are all looking for -- The bones of birds -- Nu'óc.
Summary: In 1978 six refugees-a girl, her father, and four "uncles"--Are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the child's imagination, the world of itchy dresses and run-down apartments is transmuted into an unearthly realm: she sees everything intensely, hears the distress calls of inanimate objects and waits for her mother to join her. But life loses none of its strangeness when the family is reunited. as the girl grows, her matter-of-fact innocence eddies increasingly around opaque and ghostly traumas: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland, the memory of a brother who drowned and, most inescapable, her father's hopeless rage for a father's order.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PS 3612 D561g 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000069354
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Suh-top! -- Palm -- The gangster we are all looking for -- The bones of birds -- Nu'óc.

In 1978 six refugees-a girl, her father, and four "uncles"--Are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the child's imagination, the world of itchy dresses and run-down apartments is transmuted into an unearthly realm: she sees everything intensely, hears the distress calls of inanimate objects and waits for her mother to join her. But life loses none of its strangeness when the family is reunited. as the girl grows, her matter-of-fact innocence eddies increasingly around opaque and ghostly traumas: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland, the memory of a brother who drowned and, most inescapable, her father's hopeless rage for a father's order.

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