Le Livre de Poche: La Petite Fille de Monsieur Linh (Paperback)

from Floratina

READ IN DUTCHThis story is only about 130 pages long, this means a lot is left for the reader's imagination. Where does Monsieur Linh precisely come from? But the story is a very beautiful and subtle one, focussing on how unfitting someone can feel in a new environment, if everything you knew has...

from RobinDawson

Beautiful novella. Sad and poignant description of an old Vietnamese man who comes with his tiny granddaughter to the US as a refugee. Despite a common language he forms a friendship with another elderly man who has also experienced loss. I don't know how it reads in French but this translated pr...

from chlorine

Monsieur Linh quitte son pays, déchiré par la guerre, en emportant seulement une petite valise et sa petite fille, un bébé. Monsieur Linh a tout perdu : sa femme est morte peu après la naissance de leur fils, et la guerre a emporté son fils, sa femme, et leur village. Il n'a plus goût à rien, mai...

from Smiler69

In this short, but Oh, So Powerful novel, we follow Monsieur Linh's progress as he gets on a boat holding a small baby in his arms, as he leaves behind an un-named war-torn Asian country. His village has been decimated by bombs and all it's inhabitants killed, including his own son and daughter i...

from BlackSheepDances

Translated from the French by Euan Cameron "Sitting on this bench which, within the space of just two days, has become a familiar little spot, a chunk of floating wood he could cling to in the midst of a strange, broad, swirling torrent. And nestling cosily against him he clasps the last twig of ...