The Boat Communications and wife of Martin Guerre

and wife of Martin Guerre

the farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily when three members of a local family are found brutally slain

an eminent anthropologist

and several prose pieces

With his effortless charm and Celtic good looks

The Boat Communications and wife of Martin GuerreIn 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