The Boat by Nam Le
Winner of Dylan Thomas Prize 2008
The Boat will take you everywhere. In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world.
The Boat takes us from a tourist in Tehran to a teenage hit man in Columbia; from an aging New York artist to a boy coming of age in a small Victorian fishing town; from the city of Hiroshima just before the bomb is dropped to the haunting waste of the South China Sea in the wake of another war. Each story uncovers a raw human truth.
Each story is absorbing and fully realised as a novel. Together, the make up a collection of astonishing diversity and achievement.
Format: Paperback | 336 pages
Dimensions (cm): 19.7 x 12.8 x 2.5 | 322g
Publication Date: 02 Mar 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Australia
Publication City/Country: Camberwell, VIC, Australia
Language: English
Edition Number: 2
ISBN10: 0143009613
ISBN13: 9780143009610
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Some minor damage to the cover including minor scuff marks along the edges, and very minor smudges of discolouring on the top-half of the front cover, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, and no highlighting of text. The first page in the book has minor blotches of discolouring, and the name and phone number of a previous owner written in black pen on the top-right corner, but no other writing in margins. No missing pages.