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There’s a tradition in Vietnamese culture,’ he said. ‘They believe that you need to give your dead a proper burial in their hometown. If not, their souls are cursed to wander the earth aimlessly, as ghosts.’ He looked down at the bottom of his empty glass, his smile slowly fading from his face, a frown forming in its stead. ‘Their soldiers were dying. Every day, more dead than they could keep up with. Just like ours. They couldn’t afford to observe their burial rites. We thought we could take advantage of that. We wanted to scare those gooks, those Viet Congs, I should say. We thought if we played tapes that sounded like they’re dead comrades, they might get scared, or become demoralised.’

This then is their story, as they work through their grief and trauma and uncertainty. This is Cecile Pin’s debut novel. It’s raw, it’s emotional, and highlights the horrors and human hardships behind the daily headlines. We see Hong Kong refugee camps, residing besides a port or airport, administered by the UNHCR and having 10.000 residents.

This is one of the times to reiterate that I grade partly on an idiosyncratic curve determined by author, genre, and an elusive sense of whether or not the book fulfilled its own purpose. They must build new lives in this strange country without their parents and their other four siblings.

Jealousy, possessiveness and a deep longing to want and be wanted are the core themes prominent throughout Pin, yet it's the plastic man himself who steals the show - his 'being' somewhat questionable throughout ... Is he actually real or just real in the minds of the grieving siblings? Some other first party sections in a form of authorial voice – who we over time realise is the (fictional) writer of the novel and whose sections are a mixture of: her research into areas such as the factual sections as well into grieving and trauma; and her own feelings and debates about what she should include in the story Although images work best, it is also possible to pin text. Use Share as Image, which lets you highlight text anywhere on the web and turn it into an image. Pin's novel does not quite work, but I admire her ambition and drive to piece together a narrative about the destiny of the so-called boat people. Set in 1978, we meet a Vietnamese family who flees their home country, but the parents and four siblings drown - only three of the children make it to England where they struggle to make a life for themselves under Thatcherism. The kids stand pars pro toto for the Vietnamese immigrant experience in the UK, and Pin employs shifting perspectives to widen the family story to a whole panorama, among the voices are a second-generation immigrant, a ghost and two soldiers involved in the Operation Wandering Soul during the Vietnam War. The author also adds in historical documents, news reports, etc. pp. I believe that Pin's purpose is to be 1) disconcerting and 2) weird as shit, and it succeeds on both fronts.The majority of the book’s a fairly conventional family saga, much of its power derived from the sheer force of the history that it reveals, as well as its continued relevance in an age where migrants making perilous, sea journeys have become so commonplace that their individuality and personal realities are too often overlooked. Pin’s novel opens in November 1978, three years after the last American forces left Vietnam, 16-year-old Anh, and two of her brothers, 14-year-old Minh and ten-year-old Thanh are being sent ahead by their parents to travel by boat to a refugee camp in Hong Kong, where they are expected to reunite with their mother, father and younger siblings before joining their uncle in America. Anh and her brothers reach Hong Kong but the rest of their family are less fortunate, falling victim to the infamous pirate raid that led to the murder of men and children and the repeated gang rapes of Vietnamese migrant women on the island of Koh Kra. Anh and her brothers eventually gain entry to Britain, despite the racist policies of the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Pin then follows Anh over a number of years as she and her brothers try to carve out a life for themselves in an alien, unwelcoming land. The sections which are the reflection of an omniscient narrator are intriguing. Who is Jane Mai Van Leung I wonder, and what is her relationship with Cecile Pin? She had far less objection to refugees, such as Rhodesians, Poles and Hungarians, since they could more easily be assimilated into British society.