Ru Dept: "I use the image of the American debt: It is so big you can't understand or conceptualize it," she said. "It is beyond my imagination. What has happened to this book is, for me, the American debt.", according to Montreal Gazette. Ru is a lyrical, evocative book about love and survival, about Th y's birthplace, Vietnam, and her adopted country, Canada. Quietly, beautifully, it weaves fiction and memoir. "It is very close to what I know," Th y said of the narrative of her family's flight from a country that held no future for them - the rickety boat and the fear, the refugee camp, where they ate rations of rotting fish, the filth - to their arrival in the town of Granby, "the warm belly that sheltered us during our first year in Canada" and the ways they reinvented themselves to make a life here and when the call came from the Canada Council to tell Montreal writer Kim Th y that her debut novel, Ru, had won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction, she thought it was one of those prank radio programs calling. She started to laugh. Ru became an instant sensation when it was published in Quebec in 2009. It won the GG's award and the Grand Prix at the Salon du Livre de Paris in 2010, several more awards in 2011 and rights have been sold to 20 countries. An English-language version, by award-winning translator Sheila Fischman, was published this month by Random House of Canada.
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