The Mountains Sing - Runner-up for the 2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Ausgezeichnet: Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2021
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| Verlag | Oneworld Publications |
| Auflage | 2021 |
| Seiten | 352 |
| Format | 13,5 x 3,4 x 19,7 cm |
| MMP | |
| Gewicht | 309 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9780861540136 |
| Bestell-Nr | 86154013EA |
An intimate, stirring portrait of a country at war and a family's battle to survive
Klappentext:
THE BESTSELLING STORY OF TWO GENERATIONS OF WOMEN WHOSE LIVES ARE CHANGED FOREVER BY THE VIET NAM WAR
'An epic account of Viet Nam's painful 20th-century history, both vast in scope and intimate in its telling... Moving and riveting.' Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer
Ha Noi, 1972. H ng and her grandmother, Tr n Di u Lan, cling to one another in their improvised shelter as American bombs fall around them. For Tr n Di u Lan, forced to flee the family farm with her six children decades earlier as the Communist government rose to power in the North, this experience is horribly familiar. Seen through the eyes of these two unforgettable women, The Mountains Sing captures their defiance and determination, hope and unexpected joy.
Vivid, gripping, and steeped in the language and traditions of Vi t Nam, celebrated Vietnamese poet Nguy n's richly lyrical debut weaves between the lives of a grandmother and granddaughter to paint a unique picture of a country pushed to breaking point, and a family who refuse to give up.
Selected as a Best Book of 2020 by NB Magazine _ BookBrowse _ Buzz Magazine _ NPR _ Washington Independent Review of Books _ Real Simple _ She Reads _ A Hindu's View _ Thoughts from a Page
Rezension:
'[An] absorbing, stirring novel... Que Mai contains her saga with a poet's discipline, crafting spare and unsparing sentences, and uplifts it with a poet's antenna for beauty in the most desolate circumstances. She evokes the landscape hauntingly, as a site of loss so profound it assumes the quality of fable.'
New York Times Book Review