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The Gangster We Are All Looking For
The Gangster We Are All Looking For is the first novel by Vietnamese-American author lê thi diem thúy, published in 2003. It was first published as a short piece in ''The Best American Essays of 1997'' and was also awarded a Pushcart Prize “Special Mention.”〔Huand, Guiyou. ''Asian American Poets: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook''. CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. 201-203. Book.〕
The novel is a fragmented sequence of events recollected by a nameless narrator. In a first-person narrative, the narrator tells the stories of her past experiences as a Vietnamese immigrant. The time and place continuously shift throughout the novel; the story takes place both in Vietnam and America. The novel is concerned with themes of identity, family dynamics, war, and liberation. Images of water are prominent symbolically and literally throughout the novel.〔Baumann, Paul. "Washing Time Away." ''The New York Times''. 25 May 2003. Print.〕〔Nguyen, Chau. "In Search of the Gangster." ''UCLA Institute: Asia Pacific Arts''. 9 April 2004. Web. 〕
==Narrative Style==
The novel is told through the voice of the immigrant girl when she is six, and continues building until she was 26.
The flow of the prose is anachronistic, often jumping from life in America to life in Vietnam, at times even to a time in Vietnam before the narrator's birth. The tenses also switch from present tense to past and back. The novel is also told episodically fractured, because as the author stated, "memory, by its nature, is very fragmented".〔thúy, lê thi diem. "Fragments of Memory." ''Far East Economic Review''. 11 March 2004. Vol. 167, Iss. 10, pg. 52. Print.〕
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