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Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice:Penguin Specials [EPUB ebook]
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A young Vietnamese-Australian named Nam, in his final year at the famed Iowa Writers’ Workshop, is trying to find his voice on the page. When his father, a man with a painful past, comes to visit, Nam’s writing and sense of self are both deeply changed.Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice is a deeply moving story of identity, family and the wellsprings of creativity, from Nam Le’s multi-award-winning collection The Boat.’A tight and densely emotional journey that sucked me in and contained as much power as the lengthy title.’ Killings, the Kill Your Darlings blog

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9781742535791 ● Publisher Penguin Random House Australia ● Published 2012 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 8024159 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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