The mountains sing : a novel / Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781616208189
- Physical Description: 342 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2020.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | The tallest mountains -- Red on the white grains -- The fortune teller -- Getting up and falling down again -- My gather's gift -- The land reform -- The journey south -- The walk -- My mother's secret -- The country bumpkin boy -- My Uncle Minh -- Facing the enemy -- My grandmother's songs. |
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Subject: | Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Fiction. Families > Vietnam > Fiction. Vietnam > History > 20th century > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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The Mountains Sing
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The Mountains Sing
The International Bestseller A New York Times Editors' Choice Selection A Winner of the 2020 Lannan Literary Awards Fellowship A Best Book of 2020: NPR's Book Concierge * PopMatters * Washington Independent Review of Books * Real Simple * The Buzz Magazine * NB Magazineâ * BookBrowse * Paperback Paris * Writer's Bone * Global Atlanta "[An] absorbing, stirring novel . . . that, in more than one sense, remedies history." -- The New York Times Book Review "A triumph, a novelistic rendition of one of the most difficult times in Vietnamese history . . . Vast in scope and intimate in its telling . . . Moving and riveting." --VIET THANH NGUYEN, author of The Sympathizer , winner of the Pulitzer Prize With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner's In the Shadow of the Banyan , The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Viá»t Nam War. Trần Diá»u Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Hà Ná»i, her young granddaughter, HÆ°Æ¡ng, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Há» Chà Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that tore apart not just her beloved country, but also her family. Vivid, gripping, and steeped in the language and traditions of Viá»t Nam, The Mountains Sing brings to life the human costs of this conflict from the point of view of the Vietnamese people themselves, while showing us the true power of kindness and hope. The Mountains Sing is celebrated Vietnamese poet Nguyá» n Phan Quế Mai's first novel in English.