2023-09-27 04:25:52
Par Eric Neuhoff
Published yesterday at 7:00 p.m., Updated 3 hours ago
Vietnamese refugees heading towards Hong Kong, June 5, 1979. COR/AFP
Time.news – This beautiful polyphonic novel follows the journey of a family of Vietnamese orphans in England in the 1980s.
Drowned. She doesn’t get over it. It was on a beach in Hong Kong, in 1978. Under a sheet, there were his parents and four of his brothers and sisters. They had not survived the crossing. Anh was on another boat, with his two other brothers. The entire tragedy of the Vietnamese boat people is summarized in a few lines. At sixteen, she has a duty to protect Minh, who is thirteen, and Thanh, ten. They dreamed of the United States. It will be London.
What change! The rain is not the same. They had never seen snow. Anh finds a job in a textile factory. This makes it possible to offer studies to its cadets. Thanh has good grades. Minh quits school to engage in petty trafficking. The heroine sacrifices herself. Everything is new. Everything is foreign. The Clash sing London Calling. Charles is engaged to Diana. The local population accepts them with wry noses. Thatcher pursues a draconian policy with immigrants. Cécile Pin describes the delicate period of adaptation, the problems…
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