The Frangipani Hotel: Fiction Violet Kupersmith

A jaded teenage girl in Houston befriends an older Vietnamese gentleman she discovers naked behind a dumpster. A trucker in Saigon was asked to drive a dying young man home to his village. A plump Vietnamese-American teenager is sent to her elderly grandmother in Ho Chi Minh City to lose weight, only to be lured out of the house by the wafting aroma of freshly baked bread. In these evocative and always surprising stories, the supernatural coexists with the mundane lives of characters who struggle against the burdens of the past.Based on traditional Vietnamese folk tales told to Kupersmith by her grandmother, these fantastical, chilling, and thoroughly contemporary stories are a boldly original exploration of Vietnamese culture , addressing both the immigrant experience and the lives of those who remained behind. Lurking in the background of them all is a larger ghost-that of the Vietnam War, whose legacy continues to haunt us.Violet Kupersmith`s voice is an exciting addition to the landscape of American fiction. `-San Francisco Chronicle`[A] sparkling debut. . . playful and wise, an astonishing feat for a young writer.

• Author: Violet Kupersmith
• Publishing house: Aurum Press Ltd
• Rok of issue: 2015
• Cover: soft
• Number of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 2.03 x 1.31 x 0.17 cm
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780812983470