(Ebook) Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin ISBN 9781250863478, 1250863473, B09X41NVKF

(Ebook) Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin ISBN 9781250863478, 1250863473, B09X41NVKF

An extraordinary, original and heartbreaking debut novel about the bonds that connect people even when separated by seas or death itself, from a thrilling new voice. "Wandering Souls is more than a story of sacrifice and familial duty... What emerges is something special  - a polyvocal novel, an essay on inherited trauma and a quiet metafiction about telling stories we don’t own."  -  Eric Nguyen, The New York Times Book ReviewThere are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies - everything in between is speculation. One night, not long after the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh and Minh flee their village and embark on a perilous boat journey to Hong Kong. Their parents and four younger siblings make the crossing in another vessel but as weeks go by it becomes clear that only one party has survived the voyage. Anh, Thanh and Minh suddenly find themselves alone in the world, without family or home. They travel on, navigating refugee camps and resettlement centres until, by a twist of fate, they arrive in Thatcher's Britain. Here they must somehow build new lives with only each other to turn to, but will that be enough in a place that doesn't seem to want them? "Moving and meticulously researched... A piercing saga of innocence being rapidly replaced by hard-won experience...Wandering Souls is a poignant saga with its grieving, beating heart firmly in the right place, and heralds the arrival of an ambitious and promising new talent."  -  Sharlene Teo, The Guardian UKRevelatory and inventive, Wandering Souls paints a heart-wrenching portrait of a family in unimaginable adversity while exploring the power of stories to heal generational wounds.