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• About this Author

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Nam Le was born in Vietnam, and raised in Australia. His work has appeared in Zoetrope, A Public Space, One Story, Conjunctions, and the Pushcart Prize and Best American Nonrequired Reading anthologies. Currently the fiction editor of the Harvard Review, he divides his time between Australia and the United States.

www.namleonline.com

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The Boat
Stories
Written by Nam Le

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $15.00

Winner of the 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction


The seven stories in Nam Le's masterful collection The Boat take us across the globe, from the slums of Colombia to Iowa City; from the streets of Tehran to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea. They guide us to the... Read more >

The Boat

Written by Nam Le

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $22.95

Winner of 2008 Dylan Thomas Prize

A stunningly inventive, deeply moving fiction debut: stories that take us from the slums of Colombia to the streets of Tehran; from New York City to Iowa City; from a tiny fishing village in Australia to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea, in a... Read more >

The Boat

Written by Nam Le

Format: eBook, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $15.00

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