Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
Autor de The Mountains Sing
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: from the authors official page
Obras de Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
Earth Cakes and Sky Cakes 2 copias
[No title] 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
- Nombre legal
- Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1973
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Vietnam
- Lugar de nacimiento
- North Vietnam
- Lugares de residencia
- Vietnam
Jakarta, Java, Indonesia
Kyrgyzstan - Educación
- Monash University (BA)
Lancaster University (PhD) - Ocupaciones
- poet
translator - Premios y honores
- Việt Nam Writers Association’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Advancement of Vietnamese Literature Overseas
- Agente
- Stevenson, Julie
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Miembros
- 899
- Popularidad
- #28,501
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 76
- ISBNs
- 45
- Idiomas
- 8
This is a dual timeline historical fiction story set in Northern Vietnam by Vietnamese author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai. It is a broad sweeping saga following the joys and sorrows of the Trần family from the 1930s to 1980s. Diệu Lan, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the 1953–1956 Land Reform in which the communist Việt Minh government incited the peasants to revolt against the landowners and strip them of their possessions. Diệu Lan survives the French occupation, the Japanese invasion of 1945, the Great Hunger, the Land Reform and the First Indochina war (1946–1954) between the Việt Minh and the French. Her granddaughter, Hương, faces heartache as her parents and uncles go off to fight in the Việt Nam War, none of them returning untouched by the tragedy.
This is an important, insightful book which creates a sense of Vietnam, its people, culture and history. My only complaint, which other readers have also expressed, was that the two narrator voices of Hương and her grandmother were hard to distinguish. I would like to read more of this author’s works. 4.5 stars… (más)