No Man's Land

No Man's Land - Paperback

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No Man's Land - Paperback

No Man's Land - Paperback

by Duong Thu Huong
$28.78
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by Duong Thu Huong (Author), Nina McPherson (Translator)

From Vietnam's most popular writer and famous dissident comes a mesmerizing novel about a tragic love triangle between characters whose destinies have been irrevocably altered by the absurdity of war

No Man's Land is set in a hamlet in the countryside of central Vietnam immediately following the end of the war in 1975, where a young woman, happily married to a successful farmer, comes home one day to find a throng of villagers assembled around her gate. She learns that her first husband, who reportedly died as a martyr and war hero many years back, is in fact alive and has returned to claim her.

Author Biography

Duong Thu Huong was born in Vietnam in 1947. At the age of twenty, she led a Communist Youth Brigade sent to the front during the Vietnam War. Of the volunteer group of forty, she was one of only three survivors. A vocal advocate of human rights and democratic reform, Huong was expelled from the Communist Party in 1990 before she was arrested and imprisoned without trial. Though her novels are banned in Vietnam, where she continues to live in internal exile, she remains one of the most popular and controversial writers for Vietnamese readers both at home and abroad. Translators Nina McPherson and Phan Huy Duong live in Paris. They have also translated Duong Thu Huong's Paradise of the Blind (1993), Novel Without a Name (1995), Memories of a Pure Spring (2000), and Beyond Illusions (2002).

Number of Pages: 460
Dimensions: 1.3 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN
Publication Date: June 09, 2011
ISBN9780786888573
Author Duong Thu Huong
PublisherHyperion Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages460
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults and Adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Duong Thu Huong

Duong Thu Huong, author of Paradise of the Blind and Novel Without a Name (both from Penguin) is an advocate of human rights and democratic political reform, and was expelled from the Communist Party and imprisoned without trial in 1991. The Vietnamese government has effectively banned all of her novels. She lives in Hanoi.

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