2Tess_W
ASIA
The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai. The book was often confusing as again, it was a dual time line and the events that plagued both the grandmother, Tran Dieu Lan, and her granddaughte,r Huong, were very similar. This poor family was victimized by the French, Japanese, Americans, and each other. The book was very depressing, just nothing good happened. Perhaps that's the story that was to be told. This author wrote and translated the book herself. She sat down with a Vietnamese-English dictionary and wrote! This was her first novel and I see potential. Not sure if I will read another one or not! 352 pages 3 stars
The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai. The book was often confusing as again, it was a dual time line and the events that plagued both the grandmother, Tran Dieu Lan, and her granddaughte,r Huong, were very similar. This poor family was victimized by the French, Japanese, Americans, and each other. The book was very depressing, just nothing good happened. Perhaps that's the story that was to be told. This author wrote and translated the book herself. She sat down with a Vietnamese-English dictionary and wrote! This was her first novel and I see potential. Not sure if I will read another one or not! 352 pages 3 stars
6labfs39
>2 Tess_W: I'm sorry this novel didn't work better for you. I enjoyed it a lot. Although she chose to write the book in English (she says to thus better represent the Vietnamese perspective in the Western canon), it was not solely with a bilingual dictionary. She was educated in Australia, so is presumably fluent in English.
