Abstract
A review of Boat by Le Nam. Nam Le's novella Boat (Le) captures the pain and anguish of a group of people seeking to transform their life. The book is an anthology of stories and novellas covering a range of topics concerning the human condition (Bullock). The author captures the wide assortment of emotive and expressive human conditions through an analysis of honour and pride with the comparison of these uniquely human tendencies against those of love, duty and compassion and in how sacrifice transcends generations. In this paper, I shall be focusing on one specific novella contained within this anthology, the one after which the book is named. It is a story of a group of boat people who left Vietnam seeking freedom and risking everything to achieve it. Boat is a story of hardship and sacrifice and a commitment to hazard everything for a meagre possibility at liberty and freedom for themselves and their families. Before we can genuinely understand Nam Le's story, we need to understand the world that led to a people willing to sacrifice everything to escape to the promise of a different world.
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