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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Memories of a Pure Springby Thu Huong Duong
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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.
Review:Duong Thu Huong has become the most poignant chronicler of [Vietnam's] disillusionment.... [She] writes beautifully.... (Time Asia)
Review:A kind of Vietnamese Farewell to Arms. (Richard Bernstein, The New York Times) What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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