PLOUGHSHARES. “ Somehow barebones and surreal, Souvankham Thammavongsa's How to Pronounce Knife is a collection whose stories will stay with you long after you've closed the book's cover.”. " How to Pronounce Knife is a masterful collection, written with so much veracity, you'll swear every word is true/5(). · How to Pronounce Knife. by. Souvankham Thammavongsa. · Rating details · 10, ratings · 1, reviews. In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's debut collection, a young girl brings a book home from school and asks her father to help her pronounce a tricky word, a simple exchange with unforgettable consequences/5(K). · How to Pronounce Knife. Souvankham Thammavongsa. ‘She thought of what else he didn’t know. What else she would have to find out for herself.’. T he note had been typed out, folded over two times. It had been pinned to the child’s chest. It could not be missed. And like all the other notes that went home with the child, her mother Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.
Ap. In the last story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's debut collection, " How to Pronounce Knife," a year-old girl helps her hard-working mother pick worms at a hog farm. Having. How to Pronounce Knife is a novel by Souvankham Thammavongsa. Toronto writer and poet Souvankham Thammavongsa joined Tom Power live on the air this morning to reflect on winning the HOW TO PRONOUNCE KNIFE Stories By Souvankham Thammavongsa. Today the word "refugee" is practically synonymous with those who have fled the Syrian war and its trail of destitution.
As one of Thammavongsa's characters says, "All we wanted was to live." And in these stories, they do—brightly, ferociously, unforgettably. Unsentimental yet tender, taut and visceral, How to Pronounce Knife announces Souvankham Thammavongsa as one of the most striking voices of her generation. How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa | Little, Brown and Company. Named one of Time's Must-Read Books of , and featuring stories that have appeared in Harper's, Granta, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review, this revelatory book of fiction from O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa establishes her as an essential new voice in Canadian and world literature. Told with compassion and wry humour, these.
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