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Mãn 2015-2016
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Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch 2022-2023
How to Pronounce Knife 2021-2022
Foe: A Novel 2020-2021
This Accident of Being Lost 2019-2020
Sweetland 2018-2019
Love Enough 2017-2018
Station Eleven 2016-2017
Mãn 2015-2016
Sisters Brothers 2014-2015
Indian Horse 2013-2014
The Cat's Table 2012-2013
The Bone Cage 2011-2012
The Golden Mean 2010-2011
Cellist of Sarajevo 2009-2010
Lullabies for Little Criminals 2008-2009
Sweetness in the Belly 2007-2008
Oryx and Crake 2006-2007
Black Bird 2005-2006
Deafening 2004-2005
Life of Pi 2003 - 2004
Monkey Beach 2002 - 2003
Mercy Among the Children 2001-2002
Chorus of Mushrooms 2000-2001
Englishman's Boy 1999-2000
Icefields 1998 - 1999
Medicine River 1997-1998
The MacEwan Book for 2015-16 is Kim Thúy's Mãn
Literature in Translation
Alvstad, Cecilia, Stefan Helgesson, and David Watson. Literature, Geography, Translation: Studies in World Writing. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. MyiLibrary. Web. 25 Aug. 2015.
Simon, Sherry, and Sheila Fischman. In Translation : Honouring Sheila Fischman. Montréal: McGill-Queen's UP, 2013. Ebrary. Web. 25 Aug. 2015.
Selected Articles in French
Sing, Pamela V. "Migrance, Sensorium et Translocalité Chez Ying Chen et Kim Thúy." International Journal of Francophone Studies 16.3 (2013): 281-301. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 26 Aug. 2015.
Dusaillant-Fernandes, Valérie. "Du Vietnam au Québec: Fragmentation Textuelle et Travail de Mémoire chez Kim Thúy." Women in French Studies 20.1 (2012): 75-89. Project MUSE. Web. 26 Aug. 2015.
Reviews
From a variety of periodicals
Interviews and Videos
Montreal Gazette. "Kim Thuy talks about her book Man." Online video. Youtube. 28 Feb. 2018. Web. 15 April 2021.
Immigrant Experience in Literature
Nguyen, Vinh. "Refugee Gratitude: Narrating Success and Intersubjectivity in Kim Thúy's Ru." Canadian Literature 219.(2013): 17-36. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 26 Aug. 2015.
Verduyn, Christl, and Danielle Schaub, eds. Identity, Community, Nation : Essays On Canadian Writing. Jerusalem : Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2002. Print
History of Vietnam
Moyers & Company: Uncovering the Real Vietnam War. Dir. Bill Moyers. Public Affairs Television, 2013. Films on Demand. Web. 26 Aug. 2015.
Nguyen, Lien-Hang T. Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Ebrary. 26 Aug. 2015.
Victoir, Laura, and Victor Zatsepine. Harbin to Hanoi : The Colonial Built Environment in Asia, 1840 To 1940. Hong Kong: Hong Kong UP, 2013. Ebrary. Web. 26 Aug. 2015.
Winston, Jane Bradley, and Leakthina Chan-Pech Ollier. Of Vietnam: Identities in Dialogue. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Ebscohost Ebook. Web. 27 Jan. 2016.
Vietnamese and French Cookery
Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst. Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Ebscohost Ebook. Web. 7 Oct. 2015.
Peters, Erica J. Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam: Food and Drink in the Long Nineteenth Century. Lanham: AltaMira Press, 2012. MyiLibrary. Web. 26 Aug. 2015.
Phillips, Delores B. "Quieting Noisy Bellies: Moving, Eating, and Being in the Vietnamese Diaspora." Cultural Critique 2009: 47. Jstor. Web. 24 Feb. 2016.
Howell, Jennifer. “À Chaque Recette, Son Histoire: Viet Kieu Food Writing and the Emergence of a Transnational Poetics.” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, Jan. 2017, pp. 72–80. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/17409292.2017.1299348.
Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Brenner, Gabrielle A., et al. "How Location and Ethnicity Affect Ethnic Entrepreneurs in Three Canadian Cities." Thunderbird International Business Review 52.2 (2010): 153-171. Business Source Complete. Web. 15 Sept. 2015.
Halkias, Daphne. Female Immigrant Entrepreneurs: The Economic and Social Impact of a Global Phenomenon. Farnham: Gower, 2011. Epub. Web. 15 Sept. 2015.
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