Chinatown

by Trish Doller and Thun

Book Overview

WINNER OF THE 2023 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN PROSE

An abandoned package is discovered in the Paris Metro: the subway workers suspect it's a terrorist bomb. A Vietnamese woman sitting nearby, her son asleep on her shoulder, waits and begins to reflect on her life, from her constrained childhood in communist Hanoi, to a long period of study in Leningrad during the Gorbachev period, and finally to the Parisian suburbs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811231887
• ISBN13: 9780811231886
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"