{"product_id":"9781950268177","title":"A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure by Hoa Nguyen","description":"2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRYA collection inspired by Hoa's mother, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe, is verse meditation on Vietnam's diaspora.   Hoa Nguyen's latest collection is a poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-\"Fall-of-Saigon\" and comprises a verse biography on her mother, Diep Anh Nguyen, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe. Multilayered, plaintive, and provocative, the poems in A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure are alive with archive and inhabit histories. In turns lyrical and unsettling, her poetry sings of language and loss; dialogues with time, myth and place; and communes with past and future ghosts.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309713666421,"sku":"9781950268177","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781950268177.jpg?v=1762813012","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781950268177","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}