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Anam

Anam

Dao, Andre

Paperback

Literary Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 193571709X
ISBN13: 9781935717096
Publisher: Kaya Press
Published: Jun 10 2025
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.50
Language: English

Dao's debut novel blends memoir, fiction, family history and philosophy in a saga of the Vietnamese diaspora

Published with Ink & Blood.

Described by the Guardian as a work of unusual power and beauty, André Dao's award-winning novel Anam transforms fragments of childhood memories, audio recordings, government documents and family lore into a moving inquiry into what can and cannot be imagined about another person's life. The unnamed narrator, a former lawyer who embarks on an academic career at Cambridge University, finds himself increasingly haunted by his grandfather's stories of having been detained for 10 years as a prisoner of conscience in one of Vietnam's most notorious jails. How to reconcile the small, quiet grandfather he knew with this newly discovered family history? How possible is it to know, much less seek to tell, someone else's story--especially one marked by multiple displacements and a never-ending war? Dao's ambitious efforts to find a meaningful and ethical way of acknowledging the unknowability of personal histories in Anam yields a dazzling work of autofiction.

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