{"id":27879,"date":"2017-04-26T11:57:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T10:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/?page_id=27879"},"modified":"2017-10-17T13:14:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T12:14:52","slug":"nhung-dam-a-thousand-fathers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/foreignrights\/authors\/nhung-dam\/nhung-dam-a-thousand-fathers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nhung Dam &#8211; A Thousand Fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Rights sold<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ullstein Bucheverlag (Germany)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/sample-translati\u2026thousand-fathers\/\">sample translation<\/a> of <i>A Thousand Fathers<\/i><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>About the book<\/h3>\n<p>In an ice-cold village on the edge of the world a Vietnamese family tries to survive.\u00a0As refugees they were fished out of the water by a northern cargo ship and placed in a country they knew nothing of.\u00a0The father departs one day leaving no message.\u00a0The rest of the family is abandoned to the whims of the Chinese\u00a0mafia. The eleven-year-old daughter becomes trapped between her mother\u2019s complete despair and the insanity of her unfamiliar surroundings. She finds herself looking at a world in which an excess of imagination is punished. Residents meet every week in the Bald Billiards caf\u00e9 to decide who the village belongs to, the sea takes fierce bites out of the land and snow falls endlessly from the heavens. She finds a glimmer of friendship with a man who lives on a dilapidated little boat and asks her a thousand questions.<\/p>\n<p>Her only weapon for finding her father in a world full of whores, toothpaste salesmen and gambling addicts is her rich imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rights sold Ullstein Bucheverlag (Germany) &nbsp; Read our sample translation of A Thousand Fathers &nbsp; About the book In an ice-cold village on the edge of the world a Vietnamese family tries to survive.\u00a0As refugees they were fished out of the water by a northern cargo ship and placed in a country they knew nothing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1135,"featured_media":29827,"parent":27848,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27879","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27879\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/29827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}