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Slander

By Linda Le

Slander

By Linda Le

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
160
Release Date:
1996-11-01
Publication Date:
1996-10-01
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0803279639
ISBN13:
9780803279636
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
218 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
230 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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