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The Boat

by Nam Le

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Canonical Title
The Boat
Original publication date
2008
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Awards and honors
Dylan Thomas Prize (2008)
New York Times Notable Book of the Year (Fiction & Poetry, 2008)
Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award (fiction category) (2009)
Epigraph
Importunate along the dark

Horizon of immediacies

The flares of desperation rise.

~ W.H. Auden
How strange that when the summons

came I always felt good.

~ Frank Conroy
Dedication
To --
Ta Thi Xuan Le, my mother
Le Huu Phuc, my father
and Truong and Victor, my brothers
First words
My father arrived on a rainy morning.
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Diaz, Junot

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