The Mountains Sing The Mountains Sing

The Mountains Sing

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Publisher Description

This “moving and riveting” book shares a layered, epic, multigenerational story of the Vietnam war and its aftermath (Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Sympathizer)​

With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the BanyanThe Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North. Years later in Hà Nội, her young granddaughter, Hương, comes of age as her parents and uncles head off down the Hồ Chí Minh Trail to fight in a conflict that tore apart not just her beloved country, but also her family.

Vivid, gripping, and steeped in the language and traditions of Việt Nam, The Mountains Sing brings to life the human costs of this conflict from the point of view of the Vietnamese people themselves, while showing us the true power of kindness and hope.

The Mountains Sing is celebrated Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s first novel in English.

New York Times Editors’ Choice Selection
Winner of the 2020 Lannan Literary Awards Fellowship 

"[An] absorbing, stirring novel . . . that, in more than one sense, remedies history." —The New York Times Book Review

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2020
March 17
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
368
Pages
PUBLISHER
Algonquin Books
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
2.1
MB

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