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y separately published work icon All That’s Left Unsaid single work   novel   crime  
Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 All That’s Left Unsaid
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'‘Just let him go.’

'Those are words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when her parents called to ask if they should let her younger brother Denny out to celebrate his high school graduation with friends, in a neighbourhood growing more unpredictable by the day. That night, Denny – optimistic, guileless, valedictorian Denny – is brutally murdered inside a busy restaurant in the Sydney suburb of Cabramatta, a refugee enclave facing violent crime, a racist police force, and the worst heroin epidemic in Australian history.

'Returning home to Cabramatta for the funeral, Ky learns that the police are stumped by her brother’s case: several people were present at Denny’s murder, but each bystander claims to have seen nothing.

'Ky sets aside her grief and determines to track down the witnesses herself. Peeling back the layers of the place that shaped her, Ky confronts the complex traumas weighing on those present the night Denny died, and finds that the seeds of violence that led to his death were planted well before that fateful night: by colonialism, by the war in Vietnam, and by the choices they’ve all made to survive.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Author's note: For mu parents
  •  Selected as one of the Guardian Australia best Australian books of 2022

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Chatswood, Chatswood - Gordon - Castlecrag area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: HQ Fiction , 2022 .
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      Extent: 400p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 15 September 2022
      ISBN: 9780008511913
    • London,
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      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      HQ Fiction GB ,
      2022 .
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      Extent: 400p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 15 September 2022.
      ISBN: 9780008511890, 0008511896
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      William Morrow ,
      2023 .
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      Extent: 304p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 26 September 2023.
      ISBN: 9780063227743, 0063227746
Alternative title: All die ungesagten Dinge
Language: German
    • Munich,
      c
      Germany,
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Piper ,
      2023 .
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      Extent: 336p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 June 2023.
      ISBN: 9783492071628, 3492071627

Works about this Work

y separately published work icon Tracey Lien on Writing Family, Home and Place Astrid Edwards (interviewer), 2024 27642765 2024 single work podcast interview

'Tracey Lien was born and raised in southwestern Sydney and now lives in Brooklyn. All That’s Left Unsaid is her debut novel, and it won the Indie Book Awards for Debut Fiction, the MUD Literary Prize, the Davitt Award for Best Adult Novel and the Readings New Australian Fiction Prize.' (Production summary)

Australia in Three Books Eugenia Flynn , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 82 no. 1 2023; (p. 24)

— Review of Up, Not Down, Mate! : Thoughts from a Prison Cell Robert Walker , 1981 selected work poetry ; Carpentaria Alexis Wright , 2006 single work novel ; All That’s Left Unsaid Tracey Lien , 2022 single work novel
Tracey Lien May Ngo (interviewer), 2023 single work interview
— Appears in: Liminal , April 2023;
Tuoi Tre Thieu Tinh Thuong : Inherited Trauma and Violence in Cabramatta May Ngo , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , December vol. 81 no. 4 2022; (p. 228-232) Meanjin Online 2022;

— Review of All That’s Left Unsaid Tracey Lien , 2022 single work novel
Death Reveals Testing Lives Diane Stubbings , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 10 September 2022; (p. 16)

— Review of All That’s Left Unsaid Tracey Lien , 2022 single work novel
Death Reveals Testing Lives Diane Stubbings , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 10 September 2022; (p. 16)

— Review of All That’s Left Unsaid Tracey Lien , 2022 single work novel
Tuoi Tre Thieu Tinh Thuong : Inherited Trauma and Violence in Cabramatta May Ngo , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , December vol. 81 no. 4 2022; (p. 228-232) Meanjin Online 2022;

— Review of All That’s Left Unsaid Tracey Lien , 2022 single work novel
Australia in Three Books Eugenia Flynn , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 82 no. 1 2023; (p. 24)

— Review of Up, Not Down, Mate! : Thoughts from a Prison Cell Robert Walker , 1981 selected work poetry ; Carpentaria Alexis Wright , 2006 single work novel ; All That’s Left Unsaid Tracey Lien , 2022 single work novel
Tracey Lien May Ngo (interviewer), 2023 single work interview
— Appears in: Liminal , April 2023;
y separately published work icon Tracey Lien on Writing Family, Home and Place Astrid Edwards (interviewer), 2024 27642765 2024 single work podcast interview

'Tracey Lien was born and raised in southwestern Sydney and now lives in Brooklyn. All That’s Left Unsaid is her debut novel, and it won the Indie Book Awards for Debut Fiction, the MUD Literary Prize, the Davitt Award for Best Adult Novel and the Readings New Australian Fiction Prize.' (Production summary)

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  • Cabramatta, Fairfield area, Sydney Southwest, Sydney, New South Wales,
  • 1996
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