Nam Le

A work of fiction that takes us to the heart of what it means to be human. Ganador del premio Dylan Thomas (60.000 libras) 2008. Un trabajo de ficción que nos lleva al mismo corazón de lo que significa ser humano. Ganador del premio Dylan Thomas (60.000 libras) 2008.

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection They call it an office job—being a sicario, a hit man—because the sicario is always waiting by the phone. In Medellín, Colombia, there’s always one more

An explosive, devastating debut book of poetry from the acclaimed author of The BoatIn his first international release since the award-winning, best-selling The Boat, Nam Le delivers a shot across the bow with a book-length poem that honors every convention of diasporic literaturein a virtuosic array of forms and registersbefore shattering the form itself.In line with the works of Claudia Rankine, Cathy Park Hong, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, this book is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identityand the violence of identity. For Le, a Vietnamese refugee in the West, this means the assumed violence of racism, oppression, and historical trauma.But it also means the violence of that assumption. Of being always assumed to be outside ones home, country, culture, or language. And the complex violencefor the diasporic writer who wants to address any of thisof language itself.Making use of multiple tones, moods, masks, and camouflages, Les poetic debut moves with unpredictable and destabilizing energy between the personal and the political. As self-indicting as it is scathing, hilarious as it is desperately moving, this is a singular, breakthrough book.

The seven stories in Nam Les masterful collection take us across the globe, guiding us to the heart of what it means to be human. From the slums of Colombia to Iowa City and from the streets of Tehran to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea, here are thrilling versatile tales that herald the arrival of a remarkable new writer.

Una colección de relatos excepcional e internacionalmente loada. Ganador de los premios literarios Pushcart, Dylan Thomas, US National Book Foundation «5 under 35», PEN/Malamud y NSW Premier´s Litera