{"title":"Nam Le","description":"\u003cp\u003eWelcome to our carefully curated collection featuring the remarkable works of Nam Le, a celebrated writer known for his thought-provoking storytelling and keen insights into cultural nuances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNam Le gained widespread acclaim with his debut publication, \u003cem\u003eThe Boat\u003c\/em\u003e. This collection of short stories showcases his deft ability to weave complex narratives that span continents and cultures, highlighting the diverse experiences of individuals around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003e36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem\u003c\/em\u003e, Le delves into the nuances of Vietnamese literature and identity, demonstrating his skill in exploring profound themes with an artistic touch. This work is a brilliant exploration of language and culture that resonates with readers who appreciate arts and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor those interested in literary critiques and reflections, \u003cem\u003eOn David Malouf\u003c\/em\u003e offers an insightful examination of one of Australia's most revered authors. Nam Le's analysis in this piece provides a deeper understanding of Malouf’s work, contributing to the wider dialogue in the arts and culture scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExplore Nam Le’s works to experience rich storytelling that transcends boundaries, enlightening and engaging readers with every turn of the page.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-boat-by-nam-le-9780143009610","title":"The Boat","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in \u003cem\u003eThe Boat\u003c\/em\u003e. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Boat\u003c\/em\u003e takes us from a tourist in Tehran to a teenage hit man in Colombia; from an ageing New York artist to a boy coming of age in a small Victorian fishing town; from the city of Hiroshima just before the bomb is dropped to the haunting waste of the South China Sea in the wake of another war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach story uncovers a raw human truth. Each story is absorbing and fully realised as a novel. Together, they make up a collection of astonishing diversity and achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46532913529068,"sku":"9780143009610","price":27.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24898083482238.jpg?v=1749347616"},{"product_id":"36-ways-of-writing-a-vietnamese-poem-by-nam-le-9781761423369","title":"36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected as one of the New York Public Library’s Best New Poetry Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories \u003ci\u003eThe Boat\u003c\/i\u003e, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem\u003c\/i\u003e says Le, a Vietnamese refugee to Australia, is ‘the book I needed to write. The book I've been writing my whole life’. This book-length poem is an urgent, unsettling reckoning with identity and the violence of identity, embedded with racism, oppression and historical trauma. But it also addresses the violence in those assumptions – of being always assumed to be outside one’s home, country, culture or language. And the complex violence, for the diasporic writer who wants to address any of this, of language itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMaking use of multiple tones, moods, masks and camouflages, Le’s poetic debut moves with unpredictable and destabilising energy between the personal and political, honouring every convention of diasporic literature – in a virtuosic array of forms and registers – before shattering the form itself. Like \u003ci\u003eThe Boat\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem\u003c\/i\u003e conjures its own terms of engagement, escapes our traps, slips our certainties. As self-indicting as it is scathing, hilarious as it is desperately moving, this is a singular, breakthrough book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Nam Le takes the English language to pieces and reassembles it with a virtuoso ease not seen since \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e' \u003cb\u003eJ.M. 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The poetry was in the prose; it stayed and sprung its rhythms, chorded its ideas, concentrated its images. Every other novel claims to be written in \"poetic prose\"; the real thing, when you come across it, is actually shocking.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNam Le takes the reader on a thrilling intellectual ride in this sharp, bold essay. Encompassing identity politics, metaphysics, the relationship between life and art, and the 'Australianness' of Malouf's work, it is unlike anything else written about one of Australia's most acclaimed writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the Writers on Writers series, leading writers reflect on another Australian writer who has inspired and fascinated them. Provocative and crisp, these books start a fresh conversation between past and present, shed new light on the craft of writing, and introduce some intriguing and talented authors and their work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlso in the Writers on Writers series:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAlice Pung on John Marsden\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eErik Jensen on Kate Jennings\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eChristos Tsiolkas on Patrick White\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCeridwen Dovey on J.M. 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