The Mountains Sing – Nguyén Phan Qué Mai

Description

Há Nôi, 1972. Hu’o’ng and her grandmother, Trân Diêu Lan, cling to one another in their improvised shelter as American bombs fall around them. For Trân Diêu Lan, forced to flee the family the family farm with her six children decades earlier as the Communist government rose to power in the North, this experience is horribly familiar. Seen through the eyes of these two unforgettable women, The Mountains Sing captures their defiance and determination, hope and unexpected joy.

Vivid, gripping, and steeped in the language and traditions of Viêt Nam, celebrated Vietnamese poet Nguyên’s richly lyrical debut weaves between the lives of grandmother and granddaughter