Memories of a Pure Spring

Dng, Thu Hng, Huong, Duong Thu, Phan, Huy Ng

ISBN 10: 0140298436 / ISBN 13: 9780140298437

Published by Penguin Group USA, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Memories of a Pure Spring
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140298436
• ISBN 13: 9780140298437
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Duong Thu Huong, author of Paradise of the Blind and Novel Without a Name (both from Penguin) is an advocate of human rights and democratic political reform, and was expelled from the Communist Party and imprisoned without trial in 1991. The Vietnamese government has effectively banned all of her novels. She lives in Hanoi.