Shortlisted For The 2024 Prime Minister's Literary Awardsa Profound Meditation On Forgiveness And Forgetting. Daos Extraordinary Debut Novel Combines Fiction And History To Chronicle His Vietnamese Grandparents Traumatic Life. The Observermoving From 1930s Hanoi Through Wars And Displacements To Saigon, Paris, Melbourne And Cambridge, A Deeply Moving Novel Of Memory And Inheritance, Colonialism And Belonging, Exile And Home.born To A Vietnamese Family Based In Melbourne, The Narrator Is Haunted By The Story Of His Grandfather Whose Ten-year Imprisonment By The Communist Government In Vietnams Notorious Chi Hoa Prison Looms Large Over His Own Place In The World And His Choice To Become A Human Rights Lawyer.