Wandering Souls
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A Best Book of 2023 in Vogue, AnOther Magazine, i-D, Independent
and Huffington Post'A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love
and uncompromising hope' Ocean Vuong'Heartbreaking ... a deeply
affecting reckoning with history' i-DAn extraordinary, original and
heartbreaking debut novel about the bonds that connect people even
when separated by seas or death itself, from a thrilling new
voice.There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies
- everything in between is speculation.One night, not long after
the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh and
Minh flee their village and embark on a perilous boat journey to
Hong Kong. Their parents and four younger siblings make the
crossing in another vessel but as weeks go by it becomes clear that
only one party has survived the voyage.Anh, Thanh and Minh suddenly
find themselves alone in the world, without family or home.They
travel on, navigating refugee camps and resettlement centres until,
by a twist of fate, they arrive in Thatcher's Britain. Here they
must somehow build new lives with only each other to turn to, but
will that be enough in a place that doesn't seem to want them?In
this piercing debut, the siblings' faltering journey is deftly
interwoven with the voice of their lost younger brother, Dao,
following them from a place between the living and the dead, and
the records of an unknown researcher intent on gathering together
the strands of their story. Revelatory and inventive, Wandering
Souls paints a heart-wrenching portrait of a family in unimaginable
adversity while exploring the power of stories to heal generational
wounds.It heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in
fiction.'Meticulously researched and beautifully imagined' Tash Aw,
author of We, the Survivors'Tells one of the most important stories
of our times' Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days'Deeply moving and
deeply generous... I cried reading it' Yara Rodrigues Fowler,
author of there are more things'A searing, sweeping and intimate
story of such heart and scope' Rachel Long, author of My Darling
from the Lions