CANCELLED: Audiobook premiere: "The Silence of My Father" by Doan Bui

With a heavy heart we have to cancel the event on September 27th, 2021 at 7:00 p.m., as the author Doan Bui is unfortunately unable to attend the audio book premiere.

We cordially invite you to the premiere of the first audio book production My father's silence by Doan Bui. The event takes place in cooperation with the Institut Français in Bremen and the Speicherbühne Mobil e.V. am 27. September 2021 a 7:00 p.m im French institute held in Bremen. The author Doan Bui will be connected digitally to the event, while Astrid Müller, who also read the radio play, will read from the book.

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.

Doan Bui

Doan Bui, born in Le Mans (France) in 1976, is a writer and journalist of Vietnamese descent. As chief reporter of the weekly magazineThe 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 prizegolden gate literary excellent.
Bui now lives in Paris.

You can get more information from the Storage Stage Mobil e.V. and at French institute.

Register for the event at the Institut Français: kultur.bremen@institutfrancais.de

We look forward to a lively participation in the audio book premiere!

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