The Truffle Eye, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Vaan Nguyen has said that her poetry is about points of emotion and shock,\" and always references both her own biography and her family history. Many of her poems are about sex, often frankly and harshly depicted. But as a Vietnamese-Israeli poet whose parents were among the \"boat people\" given asylum in Israel in 1979, she explores themes of displacement, emptiness, cruelty, hunger, and identity beneath the surface. Though born in Israel, she lives outside the dominant culture, and her sense of not belonging, along with a pervasive yearning, permeate the book on multiple levels.\""Vaan Nguyen is an Israeli poet, journalist, actress and activist, born to Vietnamese refugees who arrived in Israel in 1979. When her first collection, The Truffle Eye (Ein ha-kmehin), came out in 2008 (an expanded version in 2013), she was hailed as a phenomenon - a poet whose first book positions her at the center of Israeli poetry.\" In 2005, she appeared in the film, \"The Journey of Vaan Nguyen\" (2005) by Duki Dror, which documents the trip she and her father took to Vietnam to try (unsuccessfully) to reclaim their confiscated land and property. As an actress and host, she has appeared in several other films and television programs, and she has alsoworked as a journalist and columnist. She began writing at age nine, and her work has been published in numerous mainstream and literary outlets. Adriana X. Jacobs is a scholar, critic, and translator of modern Hebrew literature who is an associate professor at Oxford University. She is also the co-convenor of the research program, Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation. Jacobs has published widely on contemporary Hebrew and Israeli poetry and translation, including articles in Shofar, PMLA, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and Prooftexts, as well as chapters in several edited volumes. She is the author of Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry (University of Michigan, 2018). Her translations of the American Hebrew poet Annabelle Farmelant appeared in Women's Hebrew Poetry on American Shores: Poems by Anne Kleiman and Annabelle Farmelant (Wayne State UP, 2016). She is the 2015 PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant recipient for her translation of Vaan Nguyen's The Truffle Eye. \""22.95 | The Truffle Eye, Paperback | Indigo Chapters