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The Boat

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Originally published May 13, 2008
Authors Nam Le
Publishers Alfred A. Knopf
Page count228
GenresShort Story
Fiction
Graphic Novel
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ID2914024
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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.

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... 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...

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... It said that might have contributed to the wrong assumption that people on board The Boat had been rescued by the Border Force...

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... A search was started but was later called off when no-one from The Boat was found to be missing...

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... 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...

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... 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...

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British man safe but son missing after Malaysia diving trip

Sep 18,2023 12:11 pm

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

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