Posted on 05/07/08
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THE BOATBy Nam LeBond Street, 272 pages, $27.95The debut story collection by Nam Le could easily become a cacophony of voices. Just 29, he's Vietnam-born, Australia-raised and spends much of his time in the United States. His central characters range even further: from a teenage gunman in Latin America to a troubled American woman adrift in Iran, a gruff New York painter, a confused Aussie teen and children living in Hiroshima just before the atom bomb falls.
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