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The recipient of international accolades—including Canada's coveted Governor General's Award (2010) for its original Canadian debut in French—this extraordinary first novel unfolds like ethereal poetry. The enigmatic title means "a small stream and, figuratively, a flow, a discharge—of tears, blood, of money" in French; in Vietnamese, it's a "lullaby, to lull." Made up of spare vignettes that flow through decades...Log In or Sign Up to Read More