Hành Trình Hy Vọng
Voyage Of Hope
Tiến Sĩ Natalie Huỳnh
Châu
Cuốn Hành Trình Hy Vọng (Voyage of Hope) của
tiến sĩ Nathalie Huỳnh Châu ghi lại cuộc hành
trình tìm tự do của người phụ nữ Việt Nam tại Úc
Châu. Cuốn sách ghi lại ký những của những phụ
nữ Việt Nam sống dưới thời Pháp thuộc, dưới thời
chiến tranh trước tháng 04/1975, và cái gì đã
thúc đẩy người phụ nữ Việt Nam bất chấp tất cả
hiểm nguy để vượt biển tìm tự do.
Cuốn sách Hành Trình Hy Vọng đã được đề cử vào
tranh giải 2007 New South Wales Premier's
Literary Awards. Sau đâu là ý kiến ghi nhận của
một giám khảo của ủy ban Wales Premier khi đọc
cuốn Hành Trình Hy Vọng:
The Community Relations Commission Award
($15,000)
BOOK DESCRIPTION
VOYAGE OF HOPE explores the experiences and
journeys of Vietnamese women who arrived in
Australia as part of the massive exodus of
refugees from Vietnam following the end of the
Vietnam War in 1975. It reveals women's memories
of life in Vietnam during the French colonial
period and after, throughout the war and its
aftermath, and what motivated them to leave
their homeland and embark on an often dangerous
journey to freedom – a voyage of hope that
eventually led them to a new life in Australia.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nathalie Nguyen holds an Australian Research
Fellowship from the Australian Research Council
at the Australian Centre, the University of
Melbourne. After completing a B.A. (Hons) at the
University of Melbourne, she won a Commonwealth
Scholarship to the University of Oxford, where
she obtained her doctorate. Her book Vietnamese
Voices: Gender and Cultural Identity in the
Vietnamese Francophone Novel (Southeast Asia
Publications, Northern Illinois University,
2003) was nominated for four international
awards, including the Kiriyama Prize.
Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen, _Voyage of Hope:
Vietnamese Australian Women's Narratives_
(Common Ground Publishing Pty Ltd)
This is a work of important cultural and social history, containing
amazing, often terrifying, life-stories compiled
on thematic structures that never lapse into
cultural clichés or sentimentality. Nathalie
Huynh Chau Nguyen does exceedingly well to hold
the narratives together.
_Voyage of Hope_ explores the nature of exile and the state of the
refugee with great empathy. Nguyen's
story-gathering and storytelling skills,
supported by an attentive, nuanced prose style,
illuminate the Vietnamese experience. She
captures the loneliness and tragedies of the
émigré whilst also charting periods of
colonisation and war.
AVAILABILITY
$AU34.95 in Australia or $US25.95 on
www.amazon.com
Available in Melbourne University Bookshop (
http://www.bookshop.unimelb.edu.au/x/n?9781863355919)
and Gleebooks in Sydney, as well as directly
from the publisher at
www.TheHumanities.com
and
www.amazon.com.
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