First printing of the first English-language edition. Warmly inscribed and signed by Kim Thuy on front endpaper. Author's debut novel, winner of the 2010 Governor General's Award for French-language fiction and the 2015 Canada Reads, and shortlisted for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Translated from the French by Sheila Fischman. 141 pages. Dust jacket is protected in a clear sleeve.

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Publisher

Random House Canada, Toronto

Publication Date

2012

Language

English

ISBN 10

0307359700

ISBN 13

9780307359704

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Printing

1st Printing

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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A runaway bestseller in Quebec, with foreign rights sold to 15 countries around the world, Kim Th�y's Governor General's Literary Award-winning Ru is a lullaby for Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland.

Ru. In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow - of tears, blood, money. Kim Th�y's Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the tides of unrest and on to more peaceful waters. In vignettes of exquisite clarity, sharp observation and sly wit, we are carried along on an unforgettable journey from a palatial residence in Saigon to a crowded and muddy Malaysian refugee camp, and onward to a new life in Quebec. There, the young girl feels the embrace of a new community, and revels in the chance to be part of the American Dream. As an adult, the waters become rough again: now a mother of two sons, she must learn to shape her love around the younger boy's autism. Moving seamlessly from past to present, from history to memory and back again, Ru is a book that celebrates life in all its wonder: its moments of beauty and sensuality, brutality and sorrow, comfort and comedy.

About the Author

KIM TH�Y has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer and restaurant owner. She currently lives in Montreal where she devotes herself to writing.

Sheila Fischman is the award-winning translator of some 150 contemporary novels from Quebec. In 2008 she was awarded the Molson Prize in the Arts. She is a Member of the Order of Canada and a chevalier de l'Ordre national du Qu�bec. She lives in Montreal.

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