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Title No man's land : a novel / Duong Thu Huong
Imprint New York : Hyperion East, ©2005

1 copy ordered for Malmö stadsarkiv:Dawit Isaak-biblioteket on 2022-02-18.
Edition 1st ed
Descript 450 pages 25 cm
Note "Central Vietnam. 1975. A young peasant woman, happily married to a successful farmer, returns to her house in the countryside to find a thong of villagers assembled around her gate. She learns that her first husband - who reportedly died as a martyr and war hero many years earlier - is in fact alive and has returned to claim her. Faced with immense pressure from the community and the Party authorities, she agrees to leave her second husband and their son to live in a squalid shack with the veteran."
"This tragic twist of fate sets the stage for Duong Thu Huong's tale of three individuals whose destinies are inextricably linked and irrevocably altered by the absurdity of war. As the riveting story unfolds, each of the parties in this fateful love triangle struggles to reconcile personal happiness with traditional values of duty and selflessness. Together, these characters offer a devastating portrait of a people sacrificed on the altar of war and to a cult of heroism."--Jacket
In English; translated from Vietnamese by Nina McPherson and Phun Huy Duong
Subject Sino-Vietnamese Conflict (1979)
1979
Sino-Vietnamese Conflict, 1979 -- Fiction
Fiction.
Classmark 895.9/2233
17.81
18.92
7,26
Alt Auth McPherson, Nina
Phan, Huy Đường, 1945-
Translation Chon vang. Engelska
ISBN/ISSN 9780786888573
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