Episode 5
Kim describes how her emotional detachment from her childhood allows her to buy a pair of shoes whose price in Vietnam would be enough to feed a family of five for a whole year.
"My emotional memory vanished during the early years of childhood. That detachment, that distance, allows me to buy without scruple a pair of shoes whose price in my native land would be enough to feed a family of five for a whole year. The sales person just has to promise me, you'll walk on air."
Ru is written by Kim Thuy, Read by Elodie Yung and abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions.
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A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4.
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- Fri 29 Jun 201222:45BBC Radio 4
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