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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.
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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.
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Memories of a Pure Spring
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Softcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Rillen / Abschürfungen / Risse / Knicke; Gebrochener Buchrücken. Gifted with extraordinary vitality and talent, Suong, with her crystal voice, ardently loves the musician Hung. Stubborn and naive, she offers no forgiveness, no morality, and harbors no regrets despite the misunderstanding and cynicism that arise with peace in Vietnam. This love story, woven from memories and nourished by the lyricism of childhood voices and scents, leaves us dazzled by such enthusiasm in the face of mediocrity, and by this intact energy in the face of the painful decline and despair experienced by her lover Hung, the true hero of the book, who can no longer find harmony with himself and his art. Seller Inventory # ea004624-9f56-4e6d-819f-6e0252862784
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