No, nothing. It’s strange, but my first memory is of America. But I have relatives in Vietnam and I go back. I buried my grandmother there in 2009. It was disorienting: There is a Vietnam in my head that my relatives told me about, but when I went back toit was like being in Times Square in New York City. It was like being in a different world. Even the culture had changed. The children were much more open and free, some would say rude.
We were living in an apartment with one bedroom and seven people: My parents, my grandmother, my uncle, two aunts and me. They are former rice farmers, they didn’t have an education or a TV. When you went into the apartment, you walked back in time. But it was also so alive, like a little village. Something was always happening, Vietnamese was always spoken, there was no silence. For a kid who didn’t talk that much, it was wonderful. I could just close my eyes, listen and feel part of my family.
Vuong speaks softly and pensively. He became a novelist by writing poetry. His poems have been published in the New Yorker and the New York Times, his poetry book"Night Sky with Exit Wounds" was awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize and will be published in a German-English version next spring by Hanser .
In his novel, Vuong tells the fragmented story of a boy called Little Dog, who was also born in Saigon, but grows up in Hartford. He falls in love with a white boy, who ends up being addicted to drugs. His writing speaks of the pain of an outsider, who fights his way out of the war-torn past of his family, and the boundaries of his social background. Vuong says that all characters are based on real people.
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