Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
Autor(a) de The Mountains Sing
About the Author
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Obras de Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
Earth Cakes and Sky Cakes 2 cópias
[No title] 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
- Nome de batismo
- Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
- Data de nascimento
- 1973
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Vietnam
- Local de nascimento
- North Vietnam
- Locais de residência
- Vietnam
Jakarta, Java, Indonesia
Kyrgyzstan - Educação
- Monash University (BA)
Lancaster University (PhD) - Ocupação
- poet
translator - Premiações
- Việt Nam Writers Association’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Advancement of Vietnamese Literature Overseas
- Agente
- Stevenson, Julie
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Membros
- 899
- Popularidade
- #28,501
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Resenhas
- 76
- ISBNs
- 45
- Idiomas
- 8
This is a dual timeline historical fiction story set in Northern Vietnam by Vietnamese author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai. It is a broad sweeping saga following the joys and sorrows of the Trần family from the 1930s to 1980s. Diệu Lan, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the 1953–1956 Land Reform in which the communist Việt Minh government incited the peasants to revolt against the landowners and strip them of their possessions. Diệu Lan survives the French occupation, the Japanese invasion of 1945, the Great Hunger, the Land Reform and the First Indochina war (1946–1954) between the Việt Minh and the French. Her granddaughter, Hương, faces heartache as her parents and uncles go off to fight in the Việt Nam War, none of them returning untouched by the tragedy.
This is an important, insightful book which creates a sense of Vietnam, its people, culture and history. My only complaint, which other readers have also expressed, was that the two narrator voices of Hương and her grandmother were hard to distinguish. I would like to read more of this author’s works. 4.5 stars… (mais)