Thu¿n: Elevator in Sài Gòn | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781911284963 | Elevator in Sài Gòn | Thu¿n | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2025

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"Thu?n's prose, at once expansive and claustrophobic, haunts without weighing the reader down. Across Hanoi, Saigon, Paris, Pyongyang, and Seoul, our narrator attempts to force a sense of clarity into her past, but colonialism blurs history and scripts the very fabric of existence, trapping our narrator in a seemingly endless search. Thrilling, tragic, and at times hilarious, Elevator in Sài Gòn is a postcolonial ghost story, a political satire, and a romance that will linger in the psyche long after the final descent of the elevator." -Sheung-King, author of You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked. and Batshit SevenA Vietnamese woman living in Paris travels back to Sài Gòn for her estranged mother's funeral. Her brother had recently built a new house and staged a grotesquely lavish ceremony for their mother to inaugurate what was rumoured to be the first elevator in a private home in the country. But shortly after the ceremony, in the middle of the night, their mother dies after mysteriously falling down the elevator shaft. Following the funeral, the daughter becomes increasingly fascinated with her family's history, and begins to investigate and track an enigmatic figure, Paul Polotsky, who emerges from her mother's notebook. Like an amateur sleuth, she trails Polotsky through the streets of Paris, sneaking behind him as he goes about his usual routines. Meanwhile, she researches her mother's past - zigzagging across France and Vietnam - trying to find clues to the spiralling, deepening questions her mother left behind unanswered - and perhaps unanswerable.

Über den Autor

Thün was born in 1967 in Hanoi. She studied at Pyatigorsk University and at la Sorbonne in Paris. She is the author of ten novels and a recipient of the Writers' Union Prize, the highest award in Vietnamese literature. Chinatown, her debut novel in English, won the 2023 ALTA National Translation Award. She currently lives in Paris.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Importe , Science Fiction & Fantasy
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781911284963
ISBN-10:	1911284967
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Thu¿n
Hersteller:	Tilted Axis Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	198 x 129 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	Thu¿n
Erscheinungsdatum:	14.01.2025
Gewicht:	0,247 kg

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