Wandering Souls - Pin, Cecile
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Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 "A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope." -Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and Time Is a Mother There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies-everything in between is speculation. After the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Minh, and Thanh journey to Hong Kong with the promise that their parents and younger siblings will soon follow. But when tragedy strikes, the three children are left orphaned, and sixteen-year-old Anh becomes the caretaker for her two…mehr

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Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 "A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope." -Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and Time Is a Mother There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies-everything in between is speculation. After the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Minh, and Thanh journey to Hong Kong with the promise that their parents and younger siblings will soon follow. But when tragedy strikes, the three children are left orphaned, and sixteen-year-old Anh becomes the caretaker for her two younger brothers overnight. In the years that follow, Anh and her brothers immigrate to the UK, living first in overcrowded camps and resettlement centers and then, later, in a modernizing London plagued by social inequality. Anh works in a factory to pay the bills. Minh loiters about with fellow high school dropouts. Thanh, the youngest, plays soccer with his friends after class. As they mature, each sibling reckons with survivor's guilt, unmoored by their parents' absence. And with every choice, their paths diverge further, until it's unclear if love alone can keep them together. Told through lyrical narrative threads, historical research, voices from lost family, and notes by an unnamed narrator determined to chart these siblings' fates, Wandering Souls captures the lives of a family marked by loss yet relentless in the pursuit of a better future. With urgency and precision, it affirms that the most important stories are those we claim for ourselves, establishing Cecile Pin as a masterful new literary voice.
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Cecile Pin
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'I raced through it. Beautiful, brilliant, unflinching' R. F. KUANG

'This lean, affecting book packs a mighty punch and heralds a dazzling new talent' OBSERVER

'Powerful ... a bold debut that breaks new ground' SUNDAY TIMES

'A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope through a long-overdue portrayal of Vietnamese life in the UK' OCEAN VUONG

'A heartbreaking novel ... a deeply affecting reckoning with history' i-D MAGAZINE

'A poignant saga with its grieving, beating heart firmly in the right place, and heralds the arrival of an ambitious and promising new talent' GUARDIAN

'A powerful story of courage, love and unwavering hope' MARIE CLAIRE

'Something special - a polyvocal novel, an essay on inherited trauma and a quiet metafiction about telling stories we don't own' NEW YORK TIMES

'Meticulously researched and beautifully imagined ... deeply affecting' TASH AW

'As relevant now as it ever was. You won't get through this without your heart breaking' AnOther

'Deeply moving and deeply generous ... I cried reading it' YARA RODRIGUES FOWLER

'A searing, sweeping and intimate story of such heart and scope' RACHEL LONG

'Historical epic Wandering Souls ... [offers] a very different take on the immigrant experience' VOGUE

'An enormously evocative portrait of dispossession' FINANCIAL TIMES