#kim thúy

[araekniarchive]

Can you do a web about the crossing of foreign languages, like two people of different translations meeting and communicating despite the barrier? Just generally linguistics I suppose.

Robert A. Johnson, The Fisher King and the Handless Maiden

Andrew Sean Greer, Less

Wiktionary definition of the Irish Gaelic word for ‘pulse’, chuisle

  Jack Gilbert, The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart

Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

Call the Midwife (2012–), 1x01

Andrés Neuman, ‘Translating Each Other’ in World Literature Today (trans. George Henson)

Erich Segal, The Class

Nizar Qabbani, Language

Love, Actually (2003) dir. Richard Curtis

Peter Newmark, A Textbook of Translation

Kim Thúy, Ru

 R. F. Kuang, Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence

Luigi Pirandello, One, None and a Hundred Thousand (trans. Samuel Putnam)

Sierra Demulder, ‘Heart Apnea’ from The Bones Below

Andrea Gibson, Maybe I Need You

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

[araekni]

Robert A. Johnson, The Fisher King and the Handless Maiden

Andrew Sean Greer, Less

Wiktionary definition of the Irish Gaelic word for ‘pulse’, chuisle

Jack Gilbert, The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart

Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

Andrés Neuman, ‘Translating Each Other’ in World Literature Today (trans. George Henson)

Erich Segal, The Class

Nizar Qabbani, Language

Love, Actually (2003) dir. Richard Curtis

Peter Newmark, A Textbook of Translation

Kim Thúy, Ru

R. F. Kuang, Babel

Luigi Pirandello, One, None and a Hundred Thousand (trans. Samuel Putnam)

Sierra Demulder, Heart Apnea

Andrea Gibson, Maybe I Need You

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

[drowster]

Poster for the movie 'Ru'

Directed by Charles-Olivier Michaud, inspired by Kim Thúy's book.

[ascle]

Ru - Kim Thúy

[suzufield]

thinking about mãn by kim thúy. about how the main character would kiss every mole on her lover's body. how she would try to memorise every inch of his skin so that it felt as familiar as her own. and when he left her, every time she thought of him, she got a tattooed mole on the same spot as one of his. "I believe that the day I wear all his tattooed dots, I will be able, by connecting them, to draw the map of his destiny on my body."

[ms-myself]

[asi-te-espero-yo]

Forces Invisibles de la Lecture | Kim Thúy

« La littérature nous donne le pouvoir de rendre des choses très banales sublimes. »

[vietgiorgio]

"Lửa đẹp quá."

Tro tàn rực rỡ (2022)

Director: Bùi Thạc Chuyên

Cinematography: Nguyễn K’Linh

[dongnhung]

Trăng Thề Vườn Thúy( Kim Vân Kiều)🔴Thanh Sang Bạch Tuyết Phượng Liên💎Cải...

[neoneun-au]

A post for my book recommendations, to be continuously updated as I read and remember more. Because without reading, I would not be writing. 

All time favourites are marked with a ☆

All are sorted by genre and will be linked (if able) to their Goodreads pages so that you can dig deeper into whatever catches your eye.

(ps if you have a Goodreads account, you can add me here)

Anthology/Short Story Collections

Behold This Dreamer - Walter de la Mare ☆

Love Letters of Great Men - Ursula Doyle

Difficult Women - Roxane Gay

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu

The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami

Essays

Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay ☆

Bluets - Maggie Nelson ☆

On Freedom - Maggie Nelson

In Praise of Shadows - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Malleable Forms - Meeka Walsh ☆

Fiction (Classic)

Persuasion - Jane Austen ☆

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Awakening - Kate Chopin

North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell ☆

Siddhartha - Hermen Hesse

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera ☆

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction (Modern)

All’s Well - Mona Awad ☆

Bunny - Mona Awad

Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach

The Pisces - Melissa Broder

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

For Today I Am A Boy - Kim Fu

The Vegetarian - Han Kang

The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova ☆

Fall on Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride

No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy

The Road - Cormac McCarthy ☆

Under the Hawthorne Tree - Ai Mi

The Song of Achilles - Madeleine Miller ☆

After Dark - Haruki Murakami ☆

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami

1Q84 - Haruki Murakami ☆

Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell

The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje

Boy, Snow, Bird - Helen Oyeyemi

Mr. Fox - Helen Oyeyemi ☆

A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki

The Overstory - Richard Powers ☆

The Godfather - Mario Puzo

Blindness - José Saramago

How To Be Both - Ali Smith

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt ☆

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

Ru - Kim Thúy

Brooklyn - Colm Tóibín

Big Fish - Daniel Wallace

Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto

Horror/Thriller

The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty

Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton

Gerald’s Game - Stephen King

The Shining - Stephen King

Audition - Ryū Murakami

I’m Thinking of Ending Things - Iain Reid

Manga/Graphic Novels

Basilisk - Futaro Yamada, Maseki Sagawa

Death Note - Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata

Eureka Seven - Jinsei Kataoka, Kazuma Kondou

Lore Olympus - Rachel Smythe

Nana - Ai Yazawa ☆

Paradise Kiss - Ai Yazawa

Uzumaki - Junji Ito

xxxHolic - CLAMP

Memoirs/Journals

Speak, Okinawa - Elizabeth Miki Brina

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty

I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - Azar Nafisi

Henry and June - Anaïs Nin ☆

The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls ☆

Non-Fiction (General)

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking - Susan Cain

The Red Market - Scott Carney

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern - Stephen Greenblatt

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right - Jane Mayer

The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson

The Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr, E.B White

Non-Fiction (Philosophy/Spiritual)

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge - Carlos Castañeda

Silence: In the Age of Noise - Erling Kagge ☆

The Kybalion - Three Initiates ☆

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo - Chögyam Trungpa

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu

Poetry Collections

I Love My Love - Reyna Biddy

Let Us Compare Mythologies - Leonard Cohen

The Prophet - Khalil Gibran

The Anatomy of Being - Shinji Moon

The Beauty of the Husband - Anne Carson ☆

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth - Warsan Shire

Night Sky with Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

Speculative Fiction

Dune - Frank Herbert

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel ☆

Battle Royale - Koushun Takami

True Crime

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders - Vincent Bugliosi

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote ☆

Young Adult

A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray ☆

The Diviners - Libba Bray

The Sun is Also a Star - Nicola Yoon

[brooklynmuseum]

After a two-year hiatus, the runway returns! We're very excited to host dapperQ's seventh annual queer fashion show, Bloom, on September 8 at 6 pm. ⁠ ⁠ Hosted by Azure Antoinette, the show includes new work by designers DEVONATION, FreeMen by Mickey, Hesta, LANDEROS NEW YORK, LLESSUR NYC, Stuzo Clothing, THÚY Custom Clothier, and Transguy Supply.  ⁠ Sounds will be provided by dapperQ’s resident DJ, M.O. ⁠

🎟 https://bit.ly/3cainRZ

📷️ Kim Geronimo

[brandonshimoda]

THE BOOKS I READ IN 2022, in the order in which I read them (*books I read before, that I was reading again):

Alexandra Chang, Days of Distraction 

Elizabeth Miki Brina, Speak, Okinawa 

Cynthia Dewi Oka, Fire Is Not a Country 

Hanif Abdurraqib, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest 

*Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings 

Victoria Chang, Dear Memory 

*Etel Adnan, Of Cities & Women (Letters to Fawwaz)

Sun Yung Shin, The Wet Hex 

traci kato-kiriyama, Navigating With(out) Instruments 

Raquel Gutiérrez, Brown Neon

Solmaz Sharif, Customs 

*Etel Adnan, Journey to Mount Tamalpais 

Lucille Clifton, Generations: A Memoir 

Emerson Whitney, Heaven 

Kim Thúy, em, tr. Sheila Fischman 

Angel Dominguez, Desgraciado (the collected letters) 

Janice Lee, Separation Anxiety 

*Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee

*Cathy Park Hong, Translating Mo’um 

Kyoko Hayashi, From Trinity to Trinity, tr. Eiko Otake 

Lao Yang, Pee Poems, tr. Joshua Edwards & Lynn Xu 

Yuri Herrera, A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire, tr. Lisa Dillman (

Mai Der Vang, Yellow Rain

Chuang Hua, Crossings 

José Watanabe, Natural History, tr. Michelle Har Kim

Walter Lew, Excerpts from: ∆IKTH 딕테/딕티 DIKTE, for DICTEE (1982) 

*Bhanu Kapil, The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers 

Vasily Grossman, An Armenian Sketchbook, tr. Robert & Elizabeth Chandler

Hiromi Kawakami, Parade, tr. Allison Markin Powell 

Lynn Xu, And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight 

*Etel Adnan, Sitt Marie Rose, tr. Georgina Kleege 

Jennifer Soong, Suede Mantis/Soft Rage 

*James Baldwin, No Name in the Street 

*Hilton Als, The Women

Dot Devota, >She 

V.S. Naipaul, The Return of Eva Perón 

Yasushi Inoue, The Hunting Gun, tr. Sadamichi Yokoo and Sanford Goldstein

Molly Murakami, Tide goes out 

Adrian Tomine, Shortcomings 

Hisham Matar, A Month in Siena 

Leia Penina Wilson, Call the Necromancer 

Gabriel García Márquez, News of a Kidnapping, tr. Edith Grossman 

Amitava Kumar, Bombay-London-New York 

Elizabeth Alexander, The Trayvon Generation 

Ryan Nakano, I Am Minor 

Constance Debré, Love Me Tender, tr. Holly James 

Hilton Als, My Pin-up 

Victoria Chang, The Trees Witness Everything 

Leslie Kitashima-Gray, The Pink Dress: A Story from the Japanese American Internment 

Emmanuel Carrère, Yoga, tr. John Lambert 

Ronald Tanaka, The Shino Suite: Sansei Poetry 

Patricia Y. Ikeda, House of Wood, House of Salt

Soichi Furuta, to breathe 

Kiki Petrosino, Bright 

Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Aerial Concave Without Cloud 

Nanao Sakaki, Real Play

Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias 

Francis Naohiko Oka, Poems 

Geraldine Kudaka, Numerous Avalanches at the Point of Intersection 

Steve Fujimura, Sad Asian Music 

Augusto Higa Oshiro, The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu, tr. Jennifer Shyue 

Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers 

Salman Rushdie, The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey 

Margo Jefferson, Constructing a Nervous System 

Hua Hsu, Stay True 

Barbara Browning, The Miniaturists 

Kate Zambreno, Drifts 

*Julie Otsuka, When The Emperor Was Divine 

Louise Akers, Elizabeth/The Story of Drone

Wong May, In the Same Light: 200 Poems for Our Century from the Migrants & Exiles of the Tang Dynasty 

Gabrielle Octavia Rucker, Dereliction 

Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish 

Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow 

Tongo Eisen-Martin, Blood on the Fog 

Lucas de Lima, Tropical Sacrifice 

*Like a New Sun: New Indigenous Mexican Poetry, ed. Víctor Terán & David Shook 

Billy-Ray Belcourt, A Minor Chorus 

Kazim Ali, Silver Road 

*Sadako Kurihara, When We Say Hiroshima, tr. Richard Minear 

Simone White, or, on being the other woman

*James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work 

Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes 

*Raquel Gutiérrez, Brown Neon 

Marguerite Duras, The Man Sitting in the Corridor 

Gayl Jones, Corregidora 

*Bhanu Kapil, The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers 

*Etel Adnan, Seasons 

Gwendolyn Brooks, to disembark 

Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome, tr. Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana

Gwendolyn Brooks, In the Mecca 

Nona Fernández, The Twilight Zone, tr. Natasha Wimmer

Selva Almada, Dead Girls, tr. Annie McDermott

*Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee

Valerie Hsiung, To Love an Artist

*Theresa Hak  Cha, Exilée and Temps Morts

Dao Strom, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People

Randa Jarrar, Love Is An Ex-Country

*Dao Strom, Instrument

Osamu Dazai, Early Light, tr. Ralph McCarthy and Donald Keene

Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun, tr. Donald Keene

Rachel Aviv, Strangers To Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Mahmoud Darwish, Journal of an Ordinary Grief, tr. Ibrahim Muhawi

[drowster]

Kim Thúy does the first clap on the first day of filming the movie RU.

[kimkai-jeongnini]

🥂Full day date 🌸

11:45 AM

Soohyuk just woke up you were still sleeping he kissed your forehead and he got up and made breakfast for the both of you

Soon few minutes later you woke up with a delicious smell of soup and rice he came in the room and gave you a breakfast in bed .

"Jagi ya good morning " he kisses you on the cheek

He smile and you went to wash up and then ate breakfast " yummy did you make this!?"

He nods and brushes your hair

He gave you a back hug and kisses you

And whispers " are you ready for our fun day today~?"

You turn around and look at him and smile "what's the plan ?"

He says " go change I'll take you out "

You were exited because everytime going out with him it's always fun he also went to go change and he waited for you downstairs

You walk down stairs and smile at him and you held his hand while walking out the door you locked the door he started the car and you got in the car .

You have a habit of taking naps on cars so then you were listening to your favorite song

The first stop

• dog cafe

He parked the car and you woke up and stretched

"Oh your awake " he smiles you hugged his arm cuddling it he kisses the forehead

You both got out and went in the cafe he bought drinks for both of you and you sat down and started cuddling the puppies

An hour later

You wave good bye to the dogs and gave them hugs and kisses and hugs soohyuk also did

The floor above the cafe was karaoke store so you went in sing a song and he did too

Your song

His song

You smiled and sang along and also took a few pictures and videos .

The Last song you wanted to sing to him while looking into his eyes is

He was so impressed and put u onto his lap and hugs you as he expected "your the best a perfect good girlfriend " he pats your hair

Before you guys leave you both duet on a song

When the song is finished he took you back to the car

And took you to a arcade to play games

You walked in your dream date instantly happend

A arcade date wow you were so exited that you held his hand and took him and play games . He was so happy to see you happy .

Then he took you for dinner but not easily "soohyuk oppa what's for dinner ?"

He grabs you from the back "Let's play a game if whoever has the most points wins and they get to decide what to eat "

The last game you chose was hammer smashing

And you won surprisingly got 500 points and he got 300

"Oppa I want korean food " you put your head on his shoulder

"OK y/n" he drove you to the closest korean restraunt near home

While driving he said "y/n your the prettiest girl I've ever met I know that me not telling the fans about you is disappointing for you but I will post it right now our hands holding "

You smile "I love you soohyuk oppa best man on earth "

[sheeshizz]

Ru

Ru is a novel by Vietnamese-born Canadian novelist Kim Thúy, first published in French in 2009 by Montreal publisher Libre Expression. It was translated into English in 2012 by Sheila Fischman and published by Vintage Canada. The debut of novel Ru won the Governor General’s Award for French-language fiction at the 2010 Governor General’s Awards. (Wikipedia)

What is archetype in literature?

An archetype is a literary device in which a character is created based on a set of qualities or traits that are specific and identifiable for readers.

The impacts of archetype in the story.

The impacts of archetypes in the novel Ru bring the readers to be able to relate, recognize and bring the readers to the real events in the novela as well as having a clue to the characters of the novel.

Though , the novel is an autobiographical novel, it has shown characteristics in different parts of the novel. Just like An Tihn Nguyen who is the character of Kim Thúy who is a Vietnamese Canadian novelist who was born in Vietnam but grew up as a Canadian immigrant when he was ten years old with her family and then they continued to live in Quebec Canada.This is the reason for her braveness and stability to continue living and continue his dream for her and her family to start a new phase of their lives, and become her the best novelist and author in today’s generation.

(5) Literary archetype used in the novel .

1. Hero ( An Tinh Nguyen) – The protagonist in the novel Ru is a woman who became brave, fought and escaped the chaotic world because of the Vietnam war to save herself and her family. She became an instrument of a character as an immigrant child with a dream in life and continued to be strong to overcome the life she has now.

2. Ruler ( United Nations High Commission for Refugee)

Canadian responsed to the boat people with An Tihn Nguyen (Kim Thúy) and her family and other refugees who were able to leave or escape the war .They are force to leave the country because of the war , where they spent four months before a Canadian delegation selected her parents for refugee status on account of their French-language proficiency.

3. Explorer ( 10 Years old An Tihn Nguyen)

At ten years old An Tihn Nguyen and her family finally arrived in Quebec Canada,it tells the story of her family’s long journey from Vietnam to Québec and the discovery of their new cultural milieu . The novel consists of short, moving vignettes about members of her family, and recounts all the small ways in which they adapted to their new daily reality as an immigrant people. Kim learned French and English, and as she grew older, seized what opportunities an immigrant could.

4. Lover ( An Tihn Nguyen Husband) - The character of his husband that she met while working at the same law firm give her the inspiration and urge to write her own novel about being an immigrant child and now being a successful and brave women.

5. Innocent ( An Tihn Nguyen Son’s) - An Tihn Nguyen’s two sons are the instrument for her genuinely happiness of her life living with her loving husband and her two sons , which makes her dedication to live her life with her family to live happy and to continue living being a brave and successful women as an immigrant person.

[galeweather]

top 5 books please!! if that's too hard, you can narrow it down to ur top 5 books of 2022 :))) this is purely selfish btw I'm on the hunt for book recs

love me some book recs!! i read 50+ books this year so here's my top ones for 2022 in no particular order (a bit more than 5):

em by kim thúy (historical fiction, beautiful and quick to read, written in fragments that slowly come together)

the secret lives of church ladies by deesha philyaw (another quick read cause my attention span this year was nonexistent, a lovely short story collection)

lost & found by kathryn schulz (very thoughtful and profound memoir, listened to this on audio)

the poet x by elizabeth acevedo (ya book written in verse)

china unbound by joanna chiu (nonfiction, not a light read by any means but super insightful if u have any interest in history, journalism and/or political science)

fun home: a family tragicomic by alison bechdel (memoir in graphic form, just amazing stuff from the author/illustrator behind the bechdel test!)

the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald (finally read this one for uni and the writing style blew me away)

brown girl dreaming by jacqueline woodson (another book in verse, this one falls under children's lit but it's pretty ageless)

and for some silly and/or trashy romance (which i read a lot of this year) i enjoyed when a scot ties the knot by tessa dare and the love hypothesis by ali hazelwood once i completely ignored that a certain star wars romance was the inspiration for it

ASK ME MY “TOP 5″ ANYTHING…