Dust Child - Nguyen Phan Que Mai, Oneworld Publications

'Dazzling. Sharply drawn and hauntingly beautiful.' Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees&amp,nbsp, Four lives, entwined forever by decisions made in a time of conflict. But what happens decades later when they unexpectedly converge once more?&amp,nbsp,&amp,nbsp, 'Dust Child&amp,nbsp,is satisfying, lyrical, and deeply empathetic.&amp,nbsp,Nguy?n Phan Qu? Mai&amp,nbsp,is a born storyteller.' Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow&amp,nbsp, Trang and Quynh:&amp,nbsp,sisters who&amp,nbsp,leave their rural village for the bustling city of Saigon, desperate to find work to help their impoverished parents.&amp,nbsp,When they take jobs as ‘ bar girls’, paid to flirt with American GIs, they must decide whether they are willing to turn their backs on the people they used to be. &amp,nbsp,&amp,nbsp, Phong: one of the thousands of mixed-race children abandoned by their American fathers and Vietnamese mothers. Phong grows up surrounded by rejection, insulted as a ‘Black American imperialist’, and a ‘child of the enemy’. But he never gives up hope of finding his parents and proving he is more than a ‘bui doi’: more than the ‘dust of life’.&amp,nbsp,&amp,nbsp, Dan: A former American helicopter pilot still plagued by regrets about his actions during the&amp,nbsp,Vi?t Nam&amp,nbsp,war. Now he has returned in the hope of confronting the demons that refuse to fall silent.&amp,nbsp,&amp,nbsp, Set between the&amp,nbsp,Vi?t Nam&amp,nbsp,war and the present day,&amp,nbsp,Dust Child&amp,nbsp,is a sweeping epic of family secrets and hidden heartache, from an internationally celebrated author.&amp,nbsp, 'Nguy?n Phan Qu? Mai is one of the most unique storytellers of our time.' Natalie Jenner, internationally bestselling-author of The Jane Austen Society A Best Book of the Year according to&amp,nbsp,Book Riot, the&amp,nbsp,Buzz&amp,nbsp,Magazines,&amp,nbsp,Cosmopolitan&amp,nbsp,and&amp,nbsp,Reader's Digest A Most Anticipated Title according to&amp,nbsp,Sydney Morning Herald,&amp,nbsp,Salon,&amp,nbsp,NB Magazine&amp,nbsp,and&amp,nbsp,SheReads