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      The Gangster We Are All Looking For

      by Le Thi Diem Thuy
      Published
      Jan 2003
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      The highly acclaimed novel that reveals the life of a Vietnamese family in America through the knowing eyes of a child finding her place and voice in a new country.

      "A brilliant evocation of human sorrow and desire.... Heartbreaking and exhilarating." —The New York Times Book Review

      In 1978 six refugees—a girl, her father, and four "uncles"—are pulled from the sea to begin a new life in San Diego. In the child's imagination, the world is transmuted into an unearthly realm: she sees everything intensely, hears the distress calls of inanimate objects, and waits for her mother to join her. But life loses none of its strangeness when the family is reunited. As the girl grows, her matter-of-fact innocence eddies increasingly around opaque and ghostly traumas: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland, the memory of a brother who drowned and, most inescapable, her father's hopeless rage.

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      First Edition Jan 2003 Knopf ISBN13 9780965737852 ISBN10 0965737853
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      May 2004 Anchor ISBN13 9780375700026 ISBN10 0375700021
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      Aug 2004 Picador (UK) ISBN13 9780330354448 ISBN10 0330354442
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      May 2003 Knopf ISBN13 9780375400186 ISBN10 0375400184
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