Title: Memories of a pure spring
First published: 2000
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Composers, Politics and government, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Women singers, Married people, Vietnamese fiction, Marriage, Musicians, Fiction, historical, general, Vietnam, fiction
Places: Vietnam
Time periods: 1975-
LC classification: PL4378.9 .D79 2000