LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope’ Ocean Vuong ‘I raced through it. Beautiful, brilliant’ Rebecca F. Kuang, author of Babel ‘A dazzling new talent’ Observer ‘Will shatter your heart’ Glamour LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope’ Ocean Vuong ‘I raced through it. Beautiful, brilliant’ Rebecca F. Kuang, author of Babel ‘A dazzling new talent’ Observer ‘Will shatter your heart’ Glamour ‘Powerful … a bold debut that breaks new ground’ Sunday Times An extraordinary story of the journey of one young family through love, loss and unwavering hope. There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies – everything in between is speculation. One night, not long after the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh and Minh flee their village and embark on a perilous boat journey to Hong Kong. Their parents and four younger siblings make the crossing in another vessel but as weeks go by it becomes clear that only one party has survived the voyage. Anh, Thanh and Minh suddenly find themselves alone in the world, without family or home. They travel on, navigating refugee camps and resettlement centres until, by a twist of fate, they arrive in Thatcher’s Britain. Here they must somehow build new lives with only each other to turn to, but will that be enough in a place that doesn’t seem to want them? In this piercing debut, the siblings’ faltering journey is deftly interwoven with the voice of their lost younger brother, Dao, following them from a place between the living and the dead, and the records of an unknown researcher intent on gathering the strands of their story. Wandering Souls paints a heart-wrenching portrait of a family in crisis while exploring the healing power of stories. A most anticipated book of 2023 in Vogue, AnOther Magazine, i-D, Independent, Evening Standard and Huffington Post ‘A powerful story of courage, love and unwavering hope’ Marie Claire ‘An ambitious and promising new talent’ Sharlene Teo, Guardian ‘Heartbreaking … a deeply affecting reckoning with history’ i-D ‘Tells one of the most important stories of our times’ Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days ‘Something special … Reading it is like watching a writer at work’ New York Times ‘I raced through it. Beautiful, brilliant, unflinching’ Rebecca F. Kuang, author of Babel and Yellowface ‘This lean, affecting book packs a mighty punch and heralds a dazzling new talent’ Observer ‘Powerful … a bold debut that breaks new ground’ Sunday Times ‘A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope through a long-overdue portrayal of Vietnamese life in the UK’ Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth, We're Briefly Gorgeous ‘A heartbreaking novel … a deeply affecting reckoning with history’ i-D Magazine ‘A poignant saga with its grieving, beating heart firmly in the right place, and heralds the arrival of an ambitious and promising new talent’ Guardian ‘A powerful story of courage, love and unwavering hope’ Marie Claire ‘Something special – a polyvocal novel, an essay on inherited trauma and a quiet metafiction about telling stories we don’t own’ New York Times ‘Meticulously researched and beautifully imagined … deeply affecting’ Tash Aw, author of We, the Survivors ‘As relevant now as it ever was. You won’t get through this without your heart breaking’ AnOther ‘Deeply moving and deeply generous … I cried reading it’ Yara Rodrigues Fowler, author of there are more things ‘A searing, sweeping and intimate story of such heart and scope’ Rachel Long, author of My Darling from the Lions ‘Historical epic Wandering Souls … [offers] a very different take on the immigrant experience’ Vogue The heartbreaking literary debut, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023 Cecile Pin grew up in Paris and New York City and now lives in London. She writes for Bad Form Review, was longlisted for its Young Writer’s prize and is a London Writers Awards 2021 winner. The heartbreaking literary debut, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023 • A heart-breaking, daring literary debut about a family fleeing Vietnam after the war, based on the history of the Vietnamese Boat People and inspired by the author’s family story • Publishing as a lead fiction debut in Spring 2023, backed by a major campaign • For fans of inventive, emotionally powerful fiction and authors like Max Porter, Ocean Vuong and Valeria Luiselli • Acquired in a 24 hour pre-empt, followed by 11 international territory sales. Competition: on earth we’re briefly gorgeous;young mungo;our wives under the sea;open water;exciting times;luster;lanny;grief is the thing with feathers;to paradise;heaven;. ocean vuong;hanya yanagihara;mieko kawakami;douglas stuart;julia armfield;caleb nelson;naoise dolan;raven leilani;max porter;Valeria Luiselli
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