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Emma-Jade and Louis are born into the havoc of the Vietnam War. Orphaned, saved and cared for by adults coping with the chaos of Saigon in free-fall, they become children of the Vietnamese diaspora. Em is not a romance in any usual sense of the word, but it is a word whose homonym--aimer, to love--resonates on every page, a book powered by love in the larger sense. A portrait of Vietnamese identity emerges that is wholly remarkable, honed in wartime violence that borders on genocide, and then by the ingenuity, sheer grit and intelligence of Vietnamese-Americans, Vietnamese-Canadians and other…mehr

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Emma-Jade and Louis are born into the havoc of the Vietnam War. Orphaned, saved and cared for by adults coping with the chaos of Saigon in free-fall, they become children of the Vietnamese diaspora. Em is not a romance in any usual sense of the word, but it is a word whose homonym--aimer, to love--resonates on every page, a book powered by love in the larger sense. A portrait of Vietnamese identity emerges that is wholly remarkable, honed in wartime violence that borders on genocide, and then by the ingenuity, sheer grit and intelligence of Vietnamese-Americans, Vietnamese-Canadians and other Vietnamese former refugees who go on to build some of the most powerful small business empires in the world. Em is a poetic story steeped in history, about those most impacted by the violence and their later accomplishments. In many ways, Em is perhaps Kim Thúy's most personal book, the one in which she trusts her readers enough to share with them not only the pervasive love she feels but also the rage and the horror at what she and so many other children of the Vietnam War had to live through.
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Kim Thúy (Saigón, 1968) abandonó Vietnam en una barcaza de refugiados a la edad de diez años. Actualmente vive en Montreal, Canadá. Antes de publicar su primera novela, Ru (Periférica, 2020), que obtuvo un gran éxito internacional, desempeñó todo tipo de oficios: costurera, intérprete, abogada en uno de los más prestigiosos bufetes canadienses, propietaria de un restaurante, crítica gastronómica de radio y televisión... Sus novelas posteriores, Mãn (Periférica, 2016) y Vi. Una mujer minúscula (Periférica, 2018), también cosecharon unas críticas excelentes. Su obra ha sido traducida a numerosas lenguas.