Land of Smiles
A Novel
$46.55
- Paperback
215 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2000
Summary
Set in the 1970s, in the era of the Vietnam War and its volatile aftermath, Land of Smiles tells the story of a young Southeast Asian man’s journey from a refugee camp in Thailand to a housing project in Oakland, California.
The novel opens with a Laotian boy, Boontakone, who swims across the Mekong River, leaving his old life behind, and losing his mother and sister in the process. In a refugee camp in Thailand, Boontakone struggles to decipher the secret codes of his new li…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780452281851 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0452281857 |
| Author: | T.C. Huo |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Plume |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 215 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2000 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 136mm x 203mm |
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Critics Review
“As an original telling of the Asian immigrant experience by a talented survivor, it is a decided success: a remarkable story, a courageous performance, and we’re privileged to get it.”–Los Angeles Times “Boontakorn’s forays into American culture are sympathetically portrayed, his alienation delineated in bittersweet scenarios…. As a chronicle of an exile’s courage, bewilderment and numb longing, Huo’s taut but impressively atmospheric second novel is a valuable addition to our literature of Asian ethnicity.”–Publishers Weekly
“Huo’s comic descriptions of his characters’ lives in California further enhance this novel’s alluring sense of dislocation.”–New York Times
T.C. Huo
T. C. Huo was born in Laos of Chinese descent and immigrated to the United States in 1979. He holds a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of California at Irvine, where he studied with authors such as Thomas Keneally, Ethan Canin, and Robert Pinsky.
Huo is the recipient of the award for adult fiction from the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association. He is the author of the novels Land of Smiles and A Thousand Wings, and currently resides in Santa Clara, California.
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