{"id":4381,"date":"2017-12-19T11:31:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T19:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/?p=4381"},"modified":"2018-02-25T12:29:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T20:29:21","slug":"best-reviewed-books-2017-short-story-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/2017\/best-reviewed-books-2017-short-story-collections","title":{"rendered":"The Best Reviewed Books of 2017:  Short Story Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/the-best-reviewed-books-of-2017-short-story-collections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Literary Hub<\/a> reviews The Refugees and lists it in Best Reviewed Books of 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4382 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Top-Books-Short-Story-Collections-400x226.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Top-Books-Short-Story-Collections-400x226.png 400w, https:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Top-Books-Short-Story-Collections-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Top-Books-Short-Story-Collections-225x127.png 225w, https:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Top-Books-Short-Story-Collections.png 798w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/bookmarks\/reviews\/the-refugees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Refugees<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Viet\u00a0Thanh Nguyen<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4309 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-30-at-12.02.09-PM-264x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-30-at-12.02.09-PM-264x400.png 264w, https:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-30-at-12.02.09-PM-190x288.png 190w, https:\/\/vietnguyen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-30-at-12.02.09-PM.png 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>(12 Rave, 5 Positive)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe collection is full of refugees, whether from external turmoil \u2013 natural or manmade disasters \u2013 or from a deeper, more internal conflict between even those who are closest to each other. With anger but not despair, with reconciliation but not unrealistic hope, and with genuine humour that is not used to diminish anyone,\u00a0<strong>Nguyen has breathed life into many unforgettable characters, and given us a timely book focusing, in the words of Willa Cather, on \u2018the slow working out of fate in people of allied sentiment and allied blood\u200b.\u2019<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<strong>Yiyun Li<\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/jan\/27\/the-refugees-viet-thanh-nguyen-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Literary Hub reviews The Refugees and lists it in Best Reviewed Books of 2017. &nbsp; 4.\u00a0The Refugees\u00a0by Viet\u00a0Thanh Nguyen (12 Rave, 5 Positive) \u201cThe collection is full of refugees, whether from external turmoil \u2013 natural or manmade disasters \u2013 or from a deeper, more internal conflict between even those who are closest to each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[205,131,304,9,10],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - 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