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Monday, 9 April 2012

The Happiest Refugee by Ahn Do


Title: The Happiest Refugee
Author: Anh Do
ISBN: 9781742372389
Number of Pages: 240
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Place of publisher: Sydney, Australia
Year: 2010
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Dimensions (cm): 23.2 x 15.3 x 1.700
Weight (kg): 0.341
Audience: General

Description:  Read Anh Do’s account of coming to Australia as a Vietnamese refugee, settling into a new country against the odds, working to support his parents whilst studying. Do has beaten these poor odds to become a successful comedian, television personality and public speaker. Do’s story is not unusual for many of Australia’s newer citizens. Yet few have had the opportunity to write about their experiences, in being a refugee, assimilating into a new country with a foreign language and unfamiliar practices and succeeding against the odds.

Highly regarded by the Australian book community, this book has won a number of awards including:
Overall Winner, Indie Book of the Year Award 2011
Winner, Non-fiction Indie Book of the Year 2011
Winner, The 2011 Nielsen BookData Booksellers' (ABA) Choice Award
Winner, ABIA (Australian Book Industry Awards) Book of the Year
Winner, ABIA Newcomer of the Year
2011Joint winner, ABIA Biography of the Year 2011
Shortlisted, 2011 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Community Relations Commission Award

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