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Author: Nam Le

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Book Cover: Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice:Penguin Shorts
Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice:Penguin Shorts
By Nam Le

A young Vietnamese-Australian named Nam, in his final year at the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop, is trying to find his voice on the page. When his father, a man with a painful past, comes to visit, Nam's writing and sense of self are both deeply changed.
 
Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice is a deeply moving story of identity, family and the wellsprings of creativity...

A young Vietnamese-Australian named Nam, in his final year at the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop, is trying to find his voice on the page. When his father, a man with a painful past, comes to visit, Nam's...

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Published: 23/04/2012
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742535791
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The Boat
By Nam Le

'The Boat raises the bar for Australian writing.'
PETER CRAVEN, Heat

'Nam Le is . . . a disturber of the peace.




'The Boat raises the bar for Australian writing.'
PETER CRAVEN, Heat

'Nam Le is . . . a disturber of the peace.




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Published: 02/03/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143009610
RRP: $24.95
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Nam Le
Published:02/03/2009
ISBN-13:9781742284781
ISBN-10:1742284787
Origin:Australia
Imprint:E-Penguin
Publisher:Penguin Aus.
Subjects: - Short stories(205)

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25 May 2012
Australian Society of Authors 2012 Barbara Jefferis Award - winner

All That I Am by Anna Funder has won the Barbara Jefferis Award.

The award is offered annually for “the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive way or otherwise empowers the status of women and girls in society”.

Anna beat fellow Miles Franklin contenders Foal's Bread and Cold Light.

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