Reading with Doan Bui: My father's silence (Düsseldorf)

Reading with Doan Bui: My Father's Silence – New release January 2018
Translated from the French by Dr. Phillip Wellnitz

Moderation and reading of the excerpts in German
through Dr. Philippe Wellnitz, director of the institute
francais
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Do you ever know the other?
The father of Doan, a young woman as a child
growing up in France with Vietnamese parents,
falls victim to a stroke and can no longer do it
speak: he now lives wrapped in silence, can
only make "O" and "A" sounds. There he will
young Mrs. Doan realizes that she actually knows nothing about him, about his past, about his
Origin. Is it too late now to get answers to their questions?

This is fateful irony: she who asks questions by profession because she is a journalist, she who
interviewed migrants from all over the world, never questioned her own father. she knows nothing
and has never researched the history of her family, who left Vietnam as exiles. In your
Family, that's the rule - you keep quiet.