Anam
Dao, André2024
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Moving from 1930s Hanoi through a series of never-ending wars and displacements to Saigon, Paris, Melbourne and Cambridge, this is a novel about memory and inheritance, colonialism and belonging, home and exile. André Dao's 'Anam' blends fiction and essay, theory and everyday life to imagine that which has been repressed, left out, and forgotten by archives and by families. As the grandson sifts through letters, photographs, government documents and memories, he has his own family to think about: a partner and an infant daughter. Is there a way to remember the past that creates a future for them as well? Or does coming home always involve a certain amount of forgetting?
Main title:
Anam / André Dao.
Author:
Dao, André, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2024.
Collation:
352 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781529094718 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
2713388