Memories of a pure spring
By: Duong Thu Huong ; translated from the Vietnamese by Nina McPherson and Phan Huy Duong
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Hyperion East
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Composers -- Vietnam -- Fiction; Women singers -- Vietnam -- Fiction; Married people -- Vietnam -- Fiction; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction; Vietnam -- Politics and government -- 1975- -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: "From Vietnam's most acclaimed writer and dissident, Duong Thu Huong, comes a novel set during and after the Vietnam War.".

"During the war, Hung meets Suong, a young peasant girl, and is struck by her voice and her beauty. He invites her to join his performing troupe and makes her his wife, opening a world of opportunities for Suong. The two become a team, entertaining the troops with Suong singing Hung's compositions. After the war, however, Hung is forced from his job, setting off a wrenching series of events.

Anger and pity drive Suong and Hung apart, and their downward spiral of destruction finally leads to a moving and unexpected climax." "Memories of a Pure Spring draws heavily on the experiences of its author, describing life at the battlefront, the inhuman conditions in a "re-education" camp, and the texture and rhythm, scents and sounds, of a provincial Vietnamese city. At the same time, it tells a simple, universal story of failed love."--BOOK JACKET.