PUBLISHED BY RANDOM HOUSE CANADA
COPYRIGHT © 2012 KIM THÚY
English translation © 2012 Sheila Fischman
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Published in 2012 by Random House Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, and simultaneously in the United Kingdom by The Clerkenwell Press, a division of Profile Books Limited, London. Originally published in French in Canada as Ru by Éditions Libre Expression, Montreal, in 2009. Distributed by Random House of Canada Limited.
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION
Thúy, Kim
[Ru. English]
Ru / Kim Thuy; translated by Sheila Fischman.
eISBN: 978-0-307-35972-8
1. Thúy, Kim. I. Fischman, Sheila II. Title.
PS8639.H89R813 2012 C848′.603 C2011-904061-1
Cover designed by CS Richardson
Images: (winter landscape) Andrew Bret Wallis / Getty Images;
(dragon pattern) John Lock / Shutterstock.com
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