Wandering Souls

Pin, Cecile

ISBN 10: 1250863481 / ISBN 13: 9781250863485

Published by Holt Paperbacks, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wandering Souls
• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250863481
• ISBN 13: 9781250863485
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Fiction 2024
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023

“Wandering Souls is a poetic, heartbreaking, and ultimately triumphant celebration of the human spirit. Casting well-known history in new light, Pin offers a capacious rendering of the love, loss, and hope of migration. Stunning and unforgettable.” ―Qian Julie Wang, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Country

There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies―everything in between is speculation.

After the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Minh, and Thanh journey to Hong Kong with the promise that their parents and younger siblings will soon follow. But when tragedy strikes, the three children are left orphaned. Reckoning with survivor’s guilt, the siblings are unmoored by their parents’ absence. After a twist of fate lands the trio in Britain, their paths diverge further with every choice they’re forced to make, until it’s unclear if love alone can keep them together.

Wandering Souls captures the lives of a family marked by loss yet relentlessly pursuing a better future. It affirms that the most important stories are those we claim for ourselves, establishing Cecile Pin as a masterful new literary voice.

About the Author

Cecile Pin grew up in Paris and New York City. She moved to London at eighteen to study philosophy at University College London and received an MA at King’s College London. She is a 2021 London Writers Award winner. Wandering Souls, her first novel, was long-listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal, and the Prix Femina étranger.