Synopsis
Through the story of Suong, a celebrated singer, and Hung, her composer husband, Memories of a Pure Spring paints an intimate portrait of modern Vietnam and its citizens as they struggle to survive under the complexities of the post-war regime. At the same time it tells a simple, universal story of love that is both haunting and riveting.
`Huong takes us on an emotionally intense and exceedingly intelligent journey’ New York Times
`Huong, a brilliant storyteller, skillfully illuminates the human spirit’s capacity for brutality and compassion, betrayal and beauty in each elegantly drawn and poignantly powerful scene in this complex and timeless novel’ Booklist
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Duong Thu Huong was born in Vietnam in 1947. Aged twenty, she led a Communist Youth Brigade sent to the front during the Vietnam War; she was one of three survivors. A vocal advocate for human rights and democratic reform, she was expelled from the Communist Party in 1990. She continues to live and write in Hanoi.
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Paperback. Condition: Fair. 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. Foxed, tanned, covers creased. 352 pages. Seller Inventory # 1576610