Hoa Pham
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Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1964
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- Australia
- Födelseort
- Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- Yrken
- novelist
short-story writer
playwright
Medlemmar
Recensioner
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Statistik
- Verk
- 13
- Även av
- 3
- Medlemmar
- 57
- Popularitet
- #287,973
- Betyg
- 3.4
- Recensioner
- 6
- ISBN
- 15
Midori is the guardian of her little brother, having lost their parents in the Fukushima tsunami. Au Co is separated from her family by distance and does not feel any closeness to the local Vietnamese community, made up of southerners who resent her being from the north. The girls make up for their isolation by weaving fantasies about dragons falling in love, which they tell to one another and to the little brother.
This idyllic existence cannot last and the real world soon intervenes, in the form of a traumatic event at the uni and a marriage proposal for one of the girls. As their fantasy lives unravel, Au Co and Midori are faced with some hard choices about their future path in life.
This is an eloquent novel, well-told, but still sparingly written. Hoa Pham manages to be both poetic and direct, and her relatively brief stories manage to convey a lot. Her tales are both matter-of-fact and contain fantasy elements that could seem out of place in the hands of a less capable writer. It's an unusual style, but she brings it off with charm and ease.… (mer)