A man of two faces : a memoir, a history, a memorial / Viet Thanh Nguyen.
"With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, 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 Mê Thuot 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 José. But there is violence hidden behind the sunny facade of what he calls AMERICA TM.
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- ISBN: 9780802160508 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Grove Press, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-380). |
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Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. |
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