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Wandering Souls

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內容簡介 此心安處是吾鄉，是小說也是越南悲傷記憶 集體的傷痕記憶，描寫在英國的越南移民的故事，王鷗行大力推薦！✰ 女性文學獎小說類初選作品✰ 衛報、紐時專文報導一九七八年，美軍撤出越南。少女施瑛和兩個弟弟在逃難時失去其他家人。他們輾轉落腳英國，在柴契爾貌似和善的難民政策之下，依靠彼此重建生活⋯一九七八年，美軍撤出越南。某晚，十六歲的施瑛帶著弟弟施清和施明搭船逃往香港，她的父母則和四個弟弟妹妹搭另一艘船。然而後來只有三姊弟倖存，輾轉流浪到英國落腳。在這個不要他們的國家裡，他們仰賴彼此重建新生。小說反映越南難民困境，也抨擊柴契爾夫人的難民政策。詩人王鷗行評論本書為打破文學類型的深刻人道之作，充滿愛和堅定希望。LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTIONA Best Book of 2023 in Vogue, AnOther Magazine, i-D, Independent, Evening Standard and Huffington Post‘A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope’ Ocean Vuong‘Heartbreaking … a deeply affecting reckoning with history’ i-D‘Powerful … a bold debut that breaks new ground’ Sunday TimesAn extraordinary, original and heartbreaking debut novel about the bonds that connect people even when separated by seas or death itself, from a thrilling new voice.There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies – everything in between is speculation.One night, not long after the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh and Minh flee their village and embark on a perilous boat journey to Hong Kong. Their parents and four younger siblings make the crossing in another vessel but as weeks go by it becomes clear that only one party has survived the voyage.Anh, Thanh and Minh suddenly find themselves alone in the world, without family or home. They travel on, navigating refugee camps and resettlement centres until, by a twist of fate, they arrive in Thatcher’s Britain. Here they must somehow build new lives with only each other to turn to, but will that be enough in a place that doesn’t seem to want them?In this piercing debut, the siblings’ faltering journey is deftly interwoven with the voice of their lost younger brother, Dao, following them from a place between the living and the dead, and the records of an unknown researcher intent on gathering together the strands of their story. Revelatory and inventive, Wandering Souls paints a heart-wrenching portrait of a family in unimaginable adversity while exploring the power of stories to heal generational wounds. It heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in fiction.‘Meticulously researched and beautifully imagined’ Tash Aw, author of We, the Survivors‘Tells one of the most important stories of our times’ Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days‘Deeply moving and deeply generous… I cried reading it’ Yara Rodrigues Fowler, author of there are more things‘A searing, sweeping and intimate story of such heart and scope’ Rachel Long, author of My Darling from the Lions‘Will shatter your heart’ Glamour‘A powerful story of courage, love and the unwavering hope of the human spirit’ Marie Claire"

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作者介紹 Cecile PinCecile Pin grew up in Paris and New York City and now lives in London. She writes for Bad Form Review, was longlisted for its Young Writer’s prize and is a London Writers Awards 2021 winner.

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