The Lu Le
Kim
Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. During the rainy season, there's no grass and the buffalo are starving. Kim volunteers to take the beasts inland to find food. On this coming-of-age journey, Kim sees men mistreat women, men fight with men, and French taxes rob the poor. He works for Lap, a buffalo herder whose past is entangled with Kim's parents, and he makes friends who will lead him to his place in the world.
The Lu Le
Kim
Kiều Trinh
Ban
Thạch Kim Long
Thanh
Huu Thanh Nguyen
Dinh, Kim's Father
Zan Sram Kra
Det
Van Be Truong
Hai Tich
Tham Nguyen Thi
Ba Tu
Hoang Nhan Vo
Lap
Trương Quang Thịnh
Quang
Nguyễn Văn Đây
Xuyen
Thi Thu Tam Cao
Lam
Huu Phuoc Nguyen
Thieu
Chau Nguyen
Cha Ban
Trung Truc Thach
Kim, Age 5
Ánh Hoa
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