The Crappiest Refugee

Le, Hung

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Langue : anglais

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1925584518 / 9781925584516

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[Author], [Publisher]. NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: Hung Le Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 'One thing I really regret is that I can't hold a grown up, intellectual, spiritual conversation in my own language but I can order a meal in Vietnamese with an Australian accent. So embarrassment. What I regret most.is that I can't squat. Maybe the Minister Of Culture was right and I am a traitor to my own people because I can't speak the language properly and I can't squat. Bad Asian all round.' - Hung Le "I carry you on my back, climb boats, keep you alive with noodle juice, your mum has to go to work ironing clothes in a factory while getting abused and yelled at by people she can't understand and can't hear. Your relatives are back in Vietnam rotting in jail or living in poverty and you become the first Asian ever to be kicked out of Melbourne University?" - Hung Le's dad On the last day of the Vietnam War, nine-year-old Hung jumped on a leaking prawn trawler on the Saigon River, somehow cheating death to become one of the first Vietnamese boat people to arrive Australia, a land where a young man's potential is limited only by his imagination - that is unless you're Hung Le. Defying the stereotype, Hung wasn't a math or computer whizz, he had no doctoring or lawyering abilities, spoke Vietnamese with an Australian accent, and couldn't even play the violin. But what he was blessed with was funny bones, and through winning Red Faces on Hey Hey It's Saturday he managed to make an international career playing the violin out of tune. THE CRAPPIEST REFUGEE is an hilarious and endearing memoir about a boat person who never found his land legs, but who has always seen the funny side.…

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Détails bibliographiques

Titre
The Crappiest Refugee
Auteur
Le, Hung
Éditeur
Affirm Press
Type de livre
Paperback
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1925584518
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781925584516

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