Like author Linda Le, the young woman who narrates this novel is from Vietnam and is a writer, a "dirty foreigner writing in French." The narrator has distanced herself not only from Vietnamese society but also from her family. Her story is an exercise in clear-eyed fury revealing three generations of a cursed family. The grandfather was a lunatic the family locked away and declared dead to avoid shame; the father is a failed artist and humiliated cuckold; the mother is a simpering beauty consumed with lust; the uncle is declared insane because of his incestuous love for his sister, who hanged herself. The narrator, on the verge of a profound depression ever since her mother told her she was illegitimate, alternates her story with her uncle's journal. In an acid style burning with compressed lyricism and savage irony, these parallel monologues sketch misfortune's family tree. Linda Le, who traveled at age fourteen from Saigon to France with a wave of "boat people," is one of the leading young novelists on France's brave new literary scene. Slander is Le's fifth-and most celebrated-novel.
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Specifications
Dimensions
Height
229 mm
Length
130 mm
Weight
227 gr
Series & Set Details
Series Name
European Women Writers
Book Details
Title
Slander
Imprint
University of Nebraska Press
Product Form
Paperback
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Genre
Fiction
Source Type
T
ISBN13
9780803279636
Book Category
Fiction Books
BISAC Subject Heading
FIC019000
Book Subcategory
General Fiction Books
ISBN10
9780803279636
Language
English
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