Description
NGUYEN, Kien. The Unwanted. Boston, New York, and London: Little, Brown and Company, n.d.
First Edition. Third Printing. 8vo. 24 cm tall. 343 pages. ISBN: 0-316-28664-8. Publisher’s quarter red cloth over off-white paper-covered boards. Copyright 2001. Copyright page states “First Edition” and shows “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3” number line. Dust jacket priced $24.95 on front flap (unclipped). Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket spine sunned. Inscribed by the author to the monastic community at the Plum Village Monastery.
- Kien Nguyen’s debut memoir, presented to Plum Village, the monastic community founded by the renowned Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk and author Thích Nhất Hạnh.
- Both Nguyen and Nhất Hạnh share Vietnamese roots and life trajectories shaped by war, exile, and renewal.
- Precedes Nguyen’s fiction, adding first-work significance and strong crossover appeal for collectors of Vietnamese and Buddhist literary histories.
