7.2 /10 1 Votes
Country Australia Publication date May 13, 2008 ISBN 978-0307268082 Publisher Alfred A. Knopf (US) Awards Anisfield-Wolf Book Award | 3.6/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 228 Originally published 2008 Genre Short story Page count 228 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (hardback & paperback) Similar Island, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, The Turning, The Thing Around Your Neck, Hiroshima | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Boat is a collection of short stories by the Vietnamese-Australian writer Nam Le, published in 2008. It contains seven short stories taking place all over the world, from Colombia and the United States to Vietnam, Tehran, Australia and Hiroshima. It was praised by critics, and the Australian writer of short stories Cate Kennedy said that the collection brought the short story back to the "literary centre stage".
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