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    0 starsmisaacs | Shared With: Everyone - May 14 2008 | Books, Literature, Vietnam, fiction
    Nam Le’s Book of Short Stories, ‘The Boat,’ Is Published - New York Times

    Quoted: The seven stories display an amazing confidence and range for so young an author, moving from a religious festival in Tehran to the days before an atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima to the cardboard shantytowns of Colombia where 14-year-old boys yearn to get “an office job,” slang for work as a hired assassin.

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