Winner of an English PEN Translates Grant
Shortlisted for Republic of Consciousness Prize 2023
“a virtuosic stream-of-consciousness mapping of the afterlives of diaspora”
The New Yorker (Best Books of 2022)
June 2022 || Tilted Axis Press || New Directions
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“Chinatown is a fever dream, a hallucination, a loop in time and life that Thuân masterfully deploys to capture the disorienting and debilitating effects of migration, racism, and a broken heart in both Vietnam and France. I was completely immersed in this spellbinding novel.”
— Viet Thanh Nguyen