The Boat - Nam Le

eBOOK

The Boat

By: Nam Le

eBook | 2 March 2009

At a Glance

eBook


$12.99

or 4 interest-free payments of $3.25 with

Instant Digital Delivery to your Booktopia Reader App

Read on
Android
eReader
Desktop
IOS
Windows
'The Boat raises the bar for Australian writing.' Peter Craven, Heat

'Nam Le is . . . a disturber of the peace.

'Consider the subjects of his stories: a child assassin in Colombia ('Cartagena'), an ageing New York artist desperate for a reconciliation with his daughter ('Meeting Elise'), a boy's coming of age in a rough Victorian fishing town ('Halflead Bay'), before the first atomic bomb falls in Japan ('Hiroshima'), The suffocations of theocracy in Iran ('Tehran Calling'). This astonishing range is topped and tailed by accounts of the uneasy reunion of a young Vietnamese writer in America with his ex-soldier father, and by the title story - the escape of a group of exhausted refugees from the Vietcong in a wallowing boat.

'One might be permitted to think, after all this high seriousness and intensity, Nam Le can't do funny. But this criminally talented 29-year-old can do that as well.' Barry Oakley, Australian Literary Review

'Stunning'
The Times

'A fearless new Australian voice that accepts no geographical limits: these are stories of leaping power and the most breath-taking grace and intimacy.' Helen Garner

'Wonderful stories that snarl and pant across our crazed world . . . an extraordinary performance. Nam Le is a heartbreaker, not easily forgotten.' Junot Diaz

'The fiction debut of the year.' James Ley, Australian Book Review

'The best book debut of 2008.' New York Magazine

'The runaway literary success of 2008.' Weekend Australian
Read on
Android
eReader
Desktop
IOS
Windows

More in Short Stories

The GoMo Short Story - Maggie Alderson

eBOOK

Every Night Is Ladies' Night : Stories - Michael Jaime-Becerra

eBOOK

RRP $28.59

$22.99

20%
OFF
Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived : Short Stories - Lily Tuck

eBOOK

Mules and Men - Zora Neale Hurston

eBOOK

$26.99

Wild Nights! : New Stories - Joyce Carol Oates

eBOOK

These Are My Confessions - Joy King

eBOOK

Ya-Yas in Bloom : A Novel - Rebecca Wells

eBOOK

RRP $29.69

$23.99

19%
OFF
All Aunt Hagar's Children : Stories - Edward P. Jones

eBOOK

RRP $31.89

$25.99

19%
OFF