Em: A Novel

Em: A Novel Paperback – September 23, 2021 by Kim Thúy (Author).

Emma-Jade and Louis are born into the havoc of the Vietnam War. Orphaned, saved and cared for by adults coping with the chaos of Saigon in free-fall, they become children of the Vietnamese diaspora. Through the linked destinies of characters connected by birth and destiny, the novel zigzags between the rubber plantations of Indochina; daily life in Saigon during the war as people find ways to survive and help each other; Operation Babylift, which evacuated thousands of biracial orphans from Saigon in April 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War; and today's global nail polish and nail salon industry, largely driven by former Vietnamese refugees - and everything in between.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 128 pages
• Dimensions 138 x 208 x 15mm | 204g
• Publication date 23 Sep 2021
• Publisher Seven Stories Press UK
• Publication City/Country United Kingdom
• Language English
• ISBN10 1838415904
• ISBN13 9781838415907