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Yi-Sheng
Jul 27, 2007 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Beautifully composed, melancholically sexily evocative of food and displacement... but the ending is not an ending. I needed some resolution; it could have been just another chapter in the non-linear narrative of Binh's life. ...more
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