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Product Description: From the most important Vietnamese author writing today, a powerful, ambitious novel about the thirst for absolute powerWidely considered today’s preeminent Vietnamese novelist, Duong Thu Huong has won acclaim for her exceptional lyricism and psychological acumen, as well as for her unflinching portraits of modern Vietnam and its culture and people...read more
Hardcover:
9780670023752 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, August 16, 2012), cover price $32.95
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9780143123712 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, July 30, 2013), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: From the most important Vietnamese author writing today, a powerful, ambitious novel about the thirst for absolute powerWidely considered today’s preeminent Vietnamese novelist, Duong Thu Huong has won acclaim for her exceptional lyricism and psychological acumen, as well as for her unflinching portraits of modern Vietnam and its culture and people.
In post-war Vietnam, a young, happily married woman finds her life turned upside down when her supposedly long dead first husband arrives in her village and, with the support of Party authorities, attempts to claim her as his own. By the author of Memories of a Pure Spring. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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9780786888573 | Reprint edition (Hachette Book Group USA, June 13, 2006), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: In post-war Vietnam, a young, happily married woman finds her life turned upside down when her supposedly long dead first husband arrives in her village and, with the support of Party authorities, attempts to claim her as his own.
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9780140298437 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, January 1, 2001), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A lyrical, autobiographical novel chronicles the story of a singer and her composer husband, from the growth of their passionate relationship in the midst of war to its tragic dissolution in war's aftermath.
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9780688127824 | William Morrow & Co, March 1, 1995, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Tells the story of twenty-eight-year old Quan, a North Vietnamese soldier who joined the war at eighteen because of his love of the Communist party, experiences the horror of the war with the Americans and the loss of a country he once knew
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9780140255102 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, June 1, 1996), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The author of Paradise of the Blind, the first novel from Vietnam ever published in America, traces a young man's experiences fighting for North Vietnam, in a novel banned in Vietnam for its subversive content.
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9780688114459 | William Morrow & Co, February 1, 1993, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Hang, a modern Vietnamese woman, is forced to grow up quickly in her turbulent country, squeezed between traditional gender roles and the rampant corruption of the communist government
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9780140236200 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, July 1, 1994), cover price $12.95
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