The Boat Communications With his effortless charm and

With his effortless charm and Celtic good looks

an eminent anthropologist

and several prose pieces

Patroclus goes with him

But Steven D

The Boat Communications With his effortless charm andIn 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world. 'The Boat raises the bar for Australian writing.' Peter Craven, Heat 'Nam Le is . . . a disturber of the peace. 'Consider the subjects of his stories a child assassin in Colombia ('Cartagena'), an ageing New York artist desperate for a reconciliation with his daughter