Vesna Goldsworthy & Kim Thúy: Stories of Exile

  • Sun 14 Aug 15:30 - 16:30
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Vesna Goldsworthy & Kim Thúy: Stories of Exile

Meet citizens of exile in two startlingly topical novels about the traumas of displacement. Serbian writer and poet Vesna Goldsworthy follows a daughter of the elite from a Soviet satellite state to London in the 1980s. But freedom swiftly leads to heartbreak in Iron Curtain. Kim Thúy’s Em is a sensitive portrait of children swept up in the Vietnam War. The two come together to explore departure and belonging with poet Heather H Yeung.

Categories: East-West, Family, Fiction, History, War/Terrorism, World Affairs

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Kim Thúy
Kim Thúy

In the prologue to her first novel, Kim Thúy writes: ‘In French, ru means a small stream and figuratively, a flow, a discharge – of tears, of blood, of money. In Vietnamese, ru means a lullaby, to lull.’