Chốn vắng
By: [Dương Thu Hương]
Publisher: NXB Như Khanh; Tự Lực [distributor
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Westminster, CA
Language: vie
Number of pages: 656
Subjects: Sino-Vietnamese Conflict, 1979; Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: A novel.