Paradise of the Blind: A novel - Softcover

Huong, Duong Thu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140236201 ISBN 13: 9780140236200

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1994

Synopsis

Written by one of Vietnam's most beloved writers, this is an exquisite portrait of three Vietnamese women struggling to survive in a society where subservience to men is expected and Communist corruption crushes every dream. "Astonishingly powerful . . . a beautifully told story of a civil war within a family."--The Los Angeles Times Book Review.

About this title

About the Author:

Duong Thu Huong is one of Vietnam's most popular writers. She was born in 1947, and at twenty volunteered to lead a Communist Youth Brigade sent to the front during the Vietnam War. During Chinas's 1979 attack on Vietnam, she also became the first woman combatant present on the front lines to chronicle the conflict. A vocal advocate of human rights and democratic political reform, Duong Thu Huong was expelled from the Vietnamese Communist party in 1989 and was imprisoned without trial in 1991 for her political beliefs. Paradise of the Blind is her fourth novel and her fourth novel to be effectively banned by the Vietnamese government. She is also the author of Novel Without a Name, which was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Duong Thu Huong is not allowed to leave Vietnam. She lives and writes in Hanoi.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Vietnamese

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140236201
• ISBN 13: 9780140236200
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144