Doan bui
Biography
Doan Bui, born in Le Mans (France) in 1976, is a writer and journalist of Vietnamese descent. As chief reporter of the weekly magazine The new observer she writes reports that have received a lot of attention. One of these reports, which deals with migrants, has been awarded the prestigious Albert London Prize.
My Father's Silence is her first novel. In 2016 he was awarded the prize golden gate literary excellent.
Bui now lives in Paris.
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My father's silence
Do you ever know the other?
The father of Doan, a young woman brought up in France by Vietnamese parents, suffers a stroke and can no longer speak: he now lives in silence, only able to utter "O" and "A" sounds. Then the young woman Doan realizes that she actually knows nothing about him, about his past, about his origins. It's 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 has interviewed migrants from all over the world, never questioned her own father. She knows nothing or has never researched the history of her family, who left Vietnam as exiles.
That's the rule in her family – people keep quiet.
Translated from the French by Dr. Phillip Wellnitz
