Memories of a Pure Spring - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330488260 ISBN 13: 9780330488266

Publisher: Picador, 2001

Synopsis

One of the bestselling Vietnamese novels of all time. A searing love story set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. Memories Of A Pure Spring was a huge bestseller when it was published in Vietnam in 1976 (it was subsequently, and still is, banned there). It is Huong's most commercial and engaging novel which deals with the aftermath of the war and how the ordinary Vietnamese people caught up in the conflict can readapt to their everyday lives and loves.

About this title

About the Author:

Duong Thu Huong was born in Vietnam in 1947. At the age of 20 she led a Communist Youth Brigade sent to the front as singers during the Vietnam War. Of the volunteer group of 40 she was one of the three survivors. A vocal advocate dernocratic political reform she was expelled from the Communist Party in 1989 and imprisoned without trial for seven months in 1991. The Vietnamese government has banned all her novels. She lives in Hanoi. Nina McPherson and Phan Huy Duong live in Paris. They are the translators of the author's previous two books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0330488260
• ISBN 13: 9780330488266
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352