{"product_id":"love-like-hate-paperback","title":"Love Like Hate (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePraise for Linh Dinh:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“[Linh] Dinh’s abrupt epiphanies mix A.D.D. with Thoreau’s economy, Calvino’s globe-trotting, and a pungent eroticism reminiscent of Kawabata’s \u003ci\u003ePalm-of-the-Hand Stories\u003c\/i\u003e.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“[Linh Dinh’s \u003ci\u003eBlood and Soap\u003c\/i\u003e] owes a certain debt to Jorge Luis Borges, but uses Borgesian metafiction and genre-bending to depict a sense of absurdity, confusion, and displacement peculiar to being a contemporary world citizen.”—Matthew Sharpe, \u003ci\u003eThe Brooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“[Linh] Dinh reveals a refreshing sense of utter irreverence and experimental fun.”—\u003ci\u003eAsianWeek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProtagonists Kim Lan and Hoang Long marry in Saigon during the Vietnam War, uniting in a setting that allows Linh Dinh’s dark, deadpan humor to flourish. Describing his mushrooming cast of characters in unsentimental and sometimes absurd ways, Dinh embraces contradictions with the surreal exuberance of Matthew Sharpe and the stylistic élan of Italo Calvino.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA recipient of the Pew Fellowship, the David T. Wong Fellowship, and the Asian American Literary Award, \u003cb\u003eLinh Dinh\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two collections of stories, \u003ci\u003eFake House\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlood and Soap\u003c\/i\u003e; and four books of poems, \u003ci\u003eAll Around What Empties Out\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Tatts\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBorderless Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eJam Alerts\u003c\/i\u003e. He is editor of the anthologies \u003ci\u003eNight, Again\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThree Vietnamese Poets\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eLove Like Hate\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dinh, Linh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52337216323858,"sku":"9781583229095","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/9238\/5846\/files\/19082663482751_90f19b2b-19da-4ee5-b942-fb38d2f259bb.jpg?v=1780436379","url":"https:\/\/hbswarehousesale.com\/products\/love-like-hate-paperback","provider":"Harvard Book Store Warehouse Sale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}