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In my quest to read a book from every country on Earth, I have had the following experience: countries with a relatively short history of the novel can tend to produce literary fiction of the plotless, serious, even grim kind, dealing with the injustices of their recent history. This may, of course, be a factor of what is translated with publishers favouring just such novels. I have sometimes enjoyed the resulting literary experience (as with Wajdi Al-Ahdal's Yemeni book A Land Without Jasmine).
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A coming of age story in Hanoi Vietnam. Hang is an only child who has never known her father. She receives a telegram from her Uncle Chinh that he is very ill, and he needs her to go to Moscow immediately. While she is on the train to Moscow, she looks back on her life with her mother. Through these memories, we begin to understand what her life was like under the communist regime.
I enjoyed Duong's writing, and I found the story compelling ...more
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