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A runaway best-seller in Quebec, with foreign rights sold to 15 nations all over the world, Ellie Thúy's Governor-General's Literary award winning Ru is just a lullaby for Vietnam and a love-letter to some fresh homeland.Ru. In Vietnamese it indicates lullaby; in German it's a little supply, but additionally indicates a circulation - of holes, body, cash. Ellie Thúyis Ru is literature at its many crystalline: the circulation of the living on the tides of unrest and on to more tranquil seas. In vignettes of sharp statement, beautiful quality and sly humor, we're taken along on an unforgettable trip from the palatial home in Saigon to some packed and dull Malaysian refugee camp, and forward into a new existence in Quebec.