The finest fiction of 2017 were gifts of light and grace amid war and displacement
Olivia Ho names Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees as one of the ten best works of fiction in 2017 for The Straits Times. War and displacement marked many of this year’s finest fiction offerings as the world continues to be wracked by the global migration crisis and the threat of terrorism. Many novels took bold […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen Provided a Light of Truth in Dark 2017
Gary Singh offers his take on censorship of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees for Metroactive. When each year concludes, the anti-man-about-town usually feels obligated to yack about his most rewarding columns of the previous 12 months. This year, however, one particular column stands out far above the rest because the absurdity continues to unfold. Just a few […]
21 books we loved in 2017
Amy Wang of Oregon Live reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Viet Thanh Nguyen, “The Refugees” (Grove Atlantic, 240 pages, $16) This collection of short stories is thematically united around the experience of Vietnamese immigrants following the Vietnam War, but in every other way differs beautifully in its approach (sometimes realist, as in “The […]
THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2017
The staff at Interview Magazine name Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees as one of the ten best books of 2017. 10. How To Murder Your Life, Cat Marnell Cat Marnell’s long awaited autobiography is many things—a dark addiction memoir (rats! roaches! rehab!), a frothy eulogy for a bygone era of NYC’s social scene with wild celebrity cameos […]
Best of 2017: 100 recommended books
The San Francisco Chronicle reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen and lists it on its 2017 recommended book list. The Refugees, by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove; 209 pages; $25). Nguyen’s stories take a quietly profound peek into the lives of Vietnam’s deracinated and dispossessed.
Electric Literature’s 15 Best Short Story Collections of 2017
Electric Literature acknowledges Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees as one of the 15 best short story collections of 2017. We love short stories around here. We publish one every week in Recommended Reading, and our highest-traffic piece this year was an essay about a short story (more on this later, when we go through Electric Lit’s […]
The Best Reviewed Books of 2017: Short Story Collections
The Literary Hub reviews The Refugees and lists it in Best Reviewed Books of 2017. 4. The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen (12 Rave, 5 Positive) “The collection is full of refugees, whether from external turmoil – natural or manmade disasters – or from a deeper, more internal conflict between even those who are closest to each […]
Vietnamese-American Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen Releases ‘The Refugees’
Hà Thu reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees for VnExpress. Tập truyện ngắn “The Refugees” của Nguyễn Thanh Việt ra mắt ở Việt Nam trong tháng 12. Nhà văn gốc Việt giành giải Pulitzer văn chương Người tị nạn (tên gốc: The Refugees) xuất bản ở Mỹ hồi đầu năm. Tác phẩm gồm tám truyện ngắn, viết về […]
‘The Refugees’ of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who was born in Vietnam
Tiểu Vũ reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees for Một Thế Giới. Tác phẩm “Người tị nạn” của nhà văn gốc Việt đoạt giải Pulitzer 2016 được chuyển ngữ tiếng Việt và phát hành tại Việt Nam từ cuối tháng 12 này. Người tị nạn (The Refugees) là tác phẩm đầu tiên của Viet Thanh Nguyen […]
Top 15 Books by Novelists of Colour Published in 2017
Samira Sawlani reviews The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen for Media Diversified in this 2017 list for Top 15 Books by Novelists of Color. The Refugees, By Viet Thanh Nguyen Timely, touching and traumatic. This collection of short stories centred by Vietnamese- American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen is dedicated to ‘all refugees everywhere’, and is both […]
The Complete NP99: the best books of 2017
The National Post staff include Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees on their list of the 99 best books of 2017. Looking back on the books published in 2017, we’ve compiled a list of 99 of the best, most-talked about – or quite simply our favourite – reads. Why the NP99 and not 100? Because that last spot […]
‘The Refugees’ – An Introduction to Viet Thanh Nguyen Literature
Nữ Lâm reviews Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees for Zing. Tập truyện ngắn “Người tị nạn” là tác phẩm đầu tiên của nhà văn đoạt giải Pulitzer 2016 được chuyển ngữ tiếng Việt. Viet Thanh Nguyen là cái tên không còn xa lạ với bạn đọc thế giới. Ông là nhà văn đoạt giải thưởng Pulitzer […]
Esquire’s 50 Best Books of 2017
Angela Ledgerwood includes Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees on the Esquire list of the 50 best books of 2017. Whether you like your reading sexy and satirical or political and polarizing, these stand-out books are guaranteed to challenge the status quo and spark timely conversation. Whether you prefer your reading sexy and satirical, political and polarizing, or […]
The 10 Best Short Story Collections of 2017
Adam Vitcavage includes Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees on the Writer’s Bone list of the 10 Best Short Story Collections of 2017. George Saunders, the 21st century master of short stories, looks for a sense of a human being on the other side of the page. He says short stories are very hard work and oftentimes people […]
Storyological 2.19 – Everything You Have
This Storyological Podcast, originally published on December 11, 2017, features Viet Thanh Nguyen’s short story “The Transplant” from The Refugees. Podcast: Storyological 2.19 – EVERYTHING YOU HAVE In which we discuss, 1. A City Inside by Tillie Walden, Avery Hill Publishing, 2016. 2. The Transplant by Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees, 2017. along with, among other things… Tillie Walden An interview […]
