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She Weeps Each Time You're Born
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Quan Barry s luminous fiction debut brings us the tumultuous history of modern Vietnam as experienced by a young girl born under mysterious circumstances a few years before the country s reunification, a child gifted with the otherworldly ability to hear the voices of the dead.
At the peak of the war in Vietnam, a baby girl is born along the Song Ma River on the night of the full moon. This is Rabbit, who will journey away from her destroyed village with a makeshift family thrown together by war. Here is a Vietnam we ve never encountered before: through Rabbit s inexplicable but radiant intuition, we are privy to an intimate version of history, from the days of French Indochina and the World War II rubber plantations through the chaos of postwar reunification. With its use of magical realism Rabbit s ability to hear the dead the novel reconstructs a turbulent historical period through a painterly human lens. This is the moving story of one woman s struggle to unearth the true history of Vietnam while simultaneously carving out a place for herself within it."
At the peak of the war in Vietnam, a baby girl is born along the Song Ma River on the night of the full moon. This is Rabbit, who will journey away from her destroyed village with a makeshift family thrown together by war. Here is a Vietnam we ve never encountered before: through Rabbit s inexplicable but radiant intuition, we are privy to an intimate version of history, from the days of French Indochina and the World War II rubber plantations through the chaos of postwar reunification. With its use of magical realism Rabbit s ability to hear the dead the novel reconstructs a turbulent historical period through a painterly human lens. This is the moving story of one woman s struggle to unearth the true history of Vietnam while simultaneously carving out a place for herself within it."
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9780307911773
She Weeps Each Time You're Born
$24.95
Out of Stock
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Quan Barry s luminous fiction debut brings us the tumultuous history of modern Vietnam as experienced by a young girl born under mysterious circumstances a few years before the country s reunification, a child gifted with the otherworldly ability to hear the voices of the dead.
At the peak of the war in Vietnam, a baby girl is born along the Song Ma River on the night of the full moon. This is Rabbit, who will journey away from her destroyed village with a makeshift family thrown together by war. Here is a Vietnam we ve never encountered before: through Rabbit s inexplicable but radiant intuition, we are privy to an intimate version of history, from the days of French Indochina and the World War II rubber plantations through the chaos of postwar reunification. With its use of magical realism Rabbit s ability to hear the dead the novel reconstructs a turbulent historical period through a painterly human lens. This is the moving story of one woman s struggle to unearth the true history of Vietnam while simultaneously carving out a place for herself within it."
At the peak of the war in Vietnam, a baby girl is born along the Song Ma River on the night of the full moon. This is Rabbit, who will journey away from her destroyed village with a makeshift family thrown together by war. Here is a Vietnam we ve never encountered before: through Rabbit s inexplicable but radiant intuition, we are privy to an intimate version of history, from the days of French Indochina and the World War II rubber plantations through the chaos of postwar reunification. With its use of magical realism Rabbit s ability to hear the dead the novel reconstructs a turbulent historical period through a painterly human lens. This is the moving story of one woman s struggle to unearth the true history of Vietnam while simultaneously carving out a place for herself within it."
Description
Quan Barry s luminous fiction debut brings us the tumultuous history of modern Vietnam as experienced by a young girl born under mysterious circumstances a few years before the country s reunification, a child gifted with the otherworldly ability to hear the voices of the dead.
At the peak of the war in Vietnam, a baby girl is born along the Song Ma River on the night of the full moon. This is Rabbit, who will journey away from her destroyed village with a makeshift family thrown together by war. Here is a Vietnam we ve never encountered before: through Rabbit s inexplicable but radiant intuition, we are privy to an intimate version of history, from the days of French Indochina and the World War II rubber plantations through the chaos of postwar reunification. With its use of magical realism Rabbit s ability to hear the dead the novel reconstructs a turbulent historical period through a painterly human lens. This is the moving story of one woman s struggle to unearth the true history of Vietnam while simultaneously carving out a place for herself within it."
At the peak of the war in Vietnam, a baby girl is born along the Song Ma River on the night of the full moon. This is Rabbit, who will journey away from her destroyed village with a makeshift family thrown together by war. Here is a Vietnam we ve never encountered before: through Rabbit s inexplicable but radiant intuition, we are privy to an intimate version of history, from the days of French Indochina and the World War II rubber plantations through the chaos of postwar reunification. With its use of magical realism Rabbit s ability to hear the dead the novel reconstructs a turbulent historical period through a painterly human lens. This is the moving story of one woman s struggle to unearth the true history of Vietnam while simultaneously carving out a place for herself within it."
ISBN
9780307911773
Publisher
Publication Date
February 10, 2015
Binding
Hardcover
Item Condition
New
Language
English
Pages
288
Keywords
Fiction | Literary; Fiction | Historical | General; Fiction | War & Military
