Another little girl has waited thirty years for us to share his memories of before and after his exile. She was born in Saigon during the Tet offensive, that is to say, one day before the lunar new year, one of the Monkey. The offensive is the most important battle, and most deadly Vietnam conflict in the American presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. Terrorized by the Communists, entire families flee, using means precarious and sordid. The girl, Kim, has ten years when, with his wealthy relatives of South Vietnamese, she Bourlingue in the hold of a boat. Over two hundred people are crammed on top of each other. first wave of boat people. Most will be collected in Malaysia in a refugee camp. Following this terrifying ordeal, Kim Thuy describe the fear that clutched at each crossing the Gulf of Siam. The Communists at their heels, promiscuity prevailing among fugitives, a light bulb hanging from a nail, only light touch to what the girl clings. After several months of the ultimate downfall, the survivors will be sent to Canada. Having no other choice but to adapt to the North American life, the girl will lose the floor momentarily. In Granby, it is Jeanne, "our fairy shirt and pink tights with hair stuck to a flower," which shall it. Music and dance returns to the wounded body of Kim flexibility. The circular movements of the arms and legs seemed to Joan "wall washes, stir the air. "Thirty years would pass before chugging Kim can put an order in circumstantial his memory as his bruised body.
It is inevitable that Kim Thuy speaks for itself before returning mentally and peacefully with his family. His mother, legalistic, began to "reinvent" fifty-five, his father lived comfortably carefree in the moment "without attachment to the past. His grandparents, aunts and uncles. Sao Mai's cousin from whom the narrator is always the shade. There are mainly two children, Henry and Pascal. Thus, from past to present, memory wavers from one side or the other. Intermingling of faces, familiar or foreign, all bearing the name of reconciliation after As the years have softened the suffering of the young woman, attenuated its disappointments. His youth gave him the irrepressible desire to start a new life. As is débobinent as the tragic events of that time, the author recalls the people who helped her survive. Mr. Ming, who studied literature at the Sorbonne, who survived a reeducation camp. Through his generosity, she discovered "the purity, the power of writing. Madame Girard, Granby, which had hired his mother to her household, unaware that it " had never held a broom in his hands before his first day of work. She also refers to a server in Hanoi, accusing him of being carried away by the American dream. Superb lesson in humility! Mr An, formerly professor and judge, became autistic, the victim re-education camps. To the young woman, he learns the nuances. Kim Thuy's family was saved by many people, the youngest to the oldest, the author tells us clearly, specifying rarely extant them an immense solidarity.
Later, Kim Thuy will be going back and forth between Vietnam and Canada. Without excess, with modesty and sensuality, it depicts men loved incognito birth of the child to her aunt in September, the disability of his son Henry, his reunion with Johanne first lost friend, who had reached out in arriving at Granby. Apart from these stories moving, sometimes funny, takes memory fragmented, tormented, the author recounts the dangers of communism, the indescribable courage of women in her country, the details of his feelings, memories of ephemeral gestures. Different features poignant roam the turbulent wakes telescoping author and the reader almost blown so the words are just unveiled at barely audible. The writing is rooted in the lightness of childhood, its seriousness in improbable adventures. Kim Thuy had to relearn everything, both French and English, Western thought, how to eat, work sometimes miserable, she lived in opulence family.
Shards of life, exalting the poetic dream, to constantly reconcile what was, what will be. Two worlds transients, strong and fragile, often interchangeably Kim Thuy, eloquent in the wilderness until the grounding in a relaxing oasis, then left show the folly and wisdom men.
It was mentioned that the book Kim Thuy Ru - rill French, Vietnamese lullaby - was awarded the Governor General's Award 2010 and the Consumer Price Press Book Fair in Montreal 2010.
Ru Kim Thuy
Editions Libre Expression, Montreal, 2010, 146 pages
Dominique Blondeau - dominblondeau@yahoo.fr 
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