The Boat
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Originally published | May 13, 2008 |
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Authors | Nam Le |
Publishers | Alfred A. Knopf |
Page count | 228 |
Genres | Short Story |
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ID | 2914024 |
About The Boat
The Boat is a collection of short stories by the Vietnamese-Australian writer Nam Le, published in 2008. It contains seven short stories taking place all over the world, from Colombia and the United States to Vietnam, Tehran, Australia and Hiroshima.
Two migrants die crossing Channel in small boat
... The Boat was spotted getting into difficulty, with several people in the water, less than a mile from the French coast early on Wednesday afternoon...
'Remarkable' Titanic menu sells for £84,000 at Wiltshire auction
... More than 1,500 people died when the Titanic struck an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean on 14 April 1912, causing The Boat to sink...
Channel deaths: Government orders inquiry into mass drowning
... It said that might have contributed to the wrong assumption that people on board The Boat had been rescued by the Border Force...
Levi Davis: Missing rugby player's family say they live in hope
... A search was started but was later called off when no-one from The Boat was found to be missing...
Brixton village: How the 'Oxford Street of South London' evolved
... According to the National Archives, there were 1,027 people on board The Boat, and more than 800 of them gave their last country of residence as somewhere in the Caribbean...
Nyad: Netflix film follows swimmer who braved sharks and jellyfish
... Sharks, for example, are deterred thanks to a piercing audio signal being sent from The Boat...
River Danube: Ukrainian captain jailed after fatal river tour boat crash
... Seven of the 35 people on board were rescued and several bodies quickly recovered, but others were swept away in the swollen river or trapped inside The Boat...
World War Two: The Australian commando raid in Singapore
... Park The Boat off Singapore, then paddle into Keppel Harbour in collapsible canoes under cover of darkness...
British man safe but son missing after Malaysia diving trip
A British man and a French woman have been found safe two-and-a-half days after They Went missing while diving off Malaysia.
Rescuers are continuing to search for The Man 's 14-year-old son, Malaysian police said.
Adrian Chesters, 46, and his Dutch son, Nathen Chesters, were on a group dive in water off the coast of Mersing, in the southern state of Johor.
Another diver, 18-year-old French woman Alexia Molina, has been found.
Police said that both individuals were reported to be in a stable condition after being taken to hospital by The Marine authorities.
Diving instructor Kristine Grodem, 35, who was also on The Trip , had previously been rescued.
The Boat operator who took them to The Dive site was detained after testing positive for drugs, police said.
The Group had been on a training dive in 49ft (15m) Deep Water near Small Island , Pulau Tokong Sanggol, around 10 miles (16km) off the coastal town of Mersing.
The Alarm was raised after they did not surface about an hour after The Dive .
Authorities in neighbouring Indonesia and Singapore and Passing Ships have been told to keep a look out for The Missing teenager.
The divers' disappearance came days after Malaysia reopened its border to foreign nationals on 1 April .
Source of news: bbc.com