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Memories of a Pure Spring

Memories of a Pure Spring

Huong, Duong Thu
McPherson, Nina

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ISBN10: 0140298436
ISBN13: 9780140298437
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Jan 1 2001
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.12 Depth: 7.78
Language: English
Memories of a Pure Spring is a mesmerizing portrait of modern Vietnam and its people who struggle to survive under the complexities of a post-war regime. During the Vietnam war, Hung, a well-known composer, becomes enchanted by the voice and beauty of a young peasant girl named Suong. He invites her to join his troupe; she becomes his wife and his star performer. But after the war, Hung loses his job, setting off a series of events that drive him and Suong into a destructive spiral. One of Vietnam's most popular writers, Duong Thu Huong draws on her own experiences to describe life at the battlefront, the conditions of a re-education camp, and the texture and rhythm, scents and sounds, of a provincial Vietnamese city. Most of all, she tells a haunting, universal story of failed love.

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