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• Title:[Short stories. Selections]
  The Forbidden Purple City : stories / Philip Huynh.
  
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• Author/Creator:Huynh, Philip, 1975- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Gibson, Bethany, 1969- editor.
  
• Published/Created:Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada : Goose Lane, [2019]
  ©2019
  

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  • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at KOERNER LIBRARY fireplaceWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PS8615.U96 F67 2019
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Short stories, Canadian--21st century.
  
• Genre/Form:Short stories.
  
• Description:263 pages ; 21 cm
  
• Summary:"A stunning story collection from a fierce new talent who writes with both assurance and vulnerability. A man returns to Hoi An in his retirement to compose a poem honouring his parents. Two teenagers, ostracized in a private school, forge an unlikely bond. A son discovers the truth about his father's business ventures and his dreams of success. A young bride, isolated on a remote island with her new husband, finds community in a group of abalone divers. Taking the title for his debut collection of short fiction from the walled palace of Vietnam's Nguyen dynasty, Philip Huynh dives headfirst into the Vietnamese diaspora. In these beautifully crafted stories, crystalline in their clarity and immersive in their intensity, he creates a universe inhabited by the deprivations of war, the reinvention of self in a new and unfamiliar settings, and the tensions between old-world parents and new-world children. Rooted in history and tradition yet startlingly contemporary in their approach, Huynh's stories are sensuously evocative, plunging us into worlds so all-encompassing that we can smell the scent of orange blossoms and hear the rumble of bass lines from suburban car stereos."-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Short stories.
  
• ISBN:9781773100784 (softcover)
  1773100785 (softcover)
  
• Contents:The investment on Dumfries street
  Gulliver's wife
  The tale of Jude
  The fig tree off Knight street
  Turkey day
  Toad poem
  The forbidden purple city
  Mayfly
  The abalone diver.