Hien, Nguyen Thanh
Chronicles of a Village (Margellos World Republic of Letters The)
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- ISBN 13:
- 9780300276404
- author:
- Hien, Nguyen Thanh
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Yale University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2024
- Pages:
- 144
- Dimensions:
- 21.4 x 13.8 x 1.2 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Literary, ,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
At the foot of Mun Mountain in central Vietnam, a self-appointed scribe collects and weaves together the stories of his neighbors. In crystalline fragments resembling prose poems, he eternalizes the vanishing beauty and tragic transformation of their farming community. The book is an elegy for a place and a people, a profound meditation on how history is created, destroyed, manipulated, and reworked. It's a tribute to the beauty and the devastating consequences of a land shaped by human struggle and environmental degradation.
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