Victorine
By: Catherine Texier.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Older women -- Fiction; Runaway wives -- Fiction; Women teachers -- Fiction; French -- Vietnam -- Fiction; Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction; Parent and adult child -- Fiction; Vietnam -- History -- 1858-1945 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Witnessing Nazi patrols in the seaside town where she is spending the final years of her life, Victorine examines her past, from the willow-lined canals of her childhood home to her nights along the Mekong River at the turn of the century.