Memories of a Pure Spring

By - Thu Hương Dương , Nina McPherson , Huy Đường Phan

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Penguin Books, New York, 2001

ISBN 10 - 0140298436

ISBN 13 - 9780140298437

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Composers Vietnam Fiction

Shelf No - 10

Call Number - 895.9223 DOU

Physical Description - 340, 9 pages ; 20 cm

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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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