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Nov 7, 2024 | 
waterstones.com | Mark Skinner |Jonathan Coe |Vesna Goldsworthy |Cecile Pin
Posted on 7th November 2024 by Mark Skinner The Proof of My Innocence – the new, bitingly funny novel from the author of The Rotter's Club and Middle England – blends murder mystery, coming-of-age story, dark academia and sublimely sharp political commentary to unputdownable effect. In this exclusive piece, Jonathan Coe shares his top five political novels of all time. Iron Curtain by Vesna Goldsworthy ‘Political’ novels come in all shapes, sizes and forms. We could be talking sexual...
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May 5, 2023 | 
washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Cecile Pin
Wandering Souls tells the story of three siblings who escape the communist regime in Vietnam and eventually settle in England among fellow Vietnamese expats. Anh and her younger brothers Minh and Thanh flee South Vietnam on a boat in 1978 (when Anh is all of 16 years old), three years after the North Vietnamese won the war and seized the country.
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Mar 31, 2023 | 
electricliterature.com | Cecile Pin
Like many children, I grew up scared of ghosts. I imagined their bodies hovering above my bed while I slept or looked away, their faces translucent and menacing. But the more I grew up, the more I realised this made no sense. Ghosts are the soul of the deceased: why would I be their foe? And even more so, surely those who cared enough to visit me would be loving spirits.
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Mar 30, 2023 | 
hebban.nl | Cecile Pin
One night, not long after the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh and Minh flee their village and embark on a perilous boat journey to Hong Kong. Their parents and four younger siblings make the crossing in another vessel but as weeks go by it becomes clear that only one party has survived the voyage. Anh, Thanh and Minh suddenly find themselves alone in the world, without family or home.
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Mar 24, 2023 | 
startribune.com | Cecile Pin
Cecile Pin's debut novel, "Wandering Souls," is at its core a tenderhearted story about the least tender of experiences: that of refugee children, separated from their parents and extended family, forced to grow up on their own in a foreign country. In this case it's 1978 Vietnam and older sister Anh is sent by her parents along with her two younger brothers, Minh and Thanh, to Hong Kong, where the rest of the family plans to reunite.
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Mar 21, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Cecile Pin |Colleen Hoover |Judy Blume
by Cecile Pin ‧ The members of a family of Vietnamese refugees—all wandering souls in their own ways—seek to understand the past while searching for hope in the present. “Everything will be alright, you’ll see,” 16-year-old Thi Anh promises her younger sister Van one night in 1978 as she and two of her brothers leave Vung Tham for a perilous boat journey to Hong Kong.
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Mar 15, 2023 | 
booklistonline.com | Cecile Pin
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Mar 11, 2023 | 
redhot.sg | Cecile Pin
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Mar 2, 2023 | 
bookanista.com | Cecile Pin
Cecile Pin’s exceptional debut novel Wandering Souls is a beautiful and haunting look at the plight of Vietnamese refugees in 1970s France. Partly based on her mother’s experience of coming to the country as a refugee, it’s about identity, loss and trying to find a feeling of belonging – a very human picture of the sacrifices and decisions refugees have to make in a world that seems to not care. —Tell us about the bookshelves in your home.
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Mar 2, 2023 | 
badformreview.com | Cecile Pin
1November 1978 – Vung Tham, VietnamThere are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies – everything in between is speculation. In the years to come, Thi Anh would let the harrowing memories of the boat and the camp trickle out of her until they were nothing but a whisper. But she would hold on to that last evening with all her might, from the smell of the steaming rice in the kitchen to the touch of her moth- er’s skin as she embraced her for the last time.
