Ebook {Epub PDF} The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

The Mountains Sing. Algonquin Books, The novel is divided into two storylines: the main story in Hà Nội, where Hương lives through the war and its aftermath through the 70s, and Diệu Lan’s life from – which includes the Great Hunger and the Land Reform, during which she escaped to Hà Nội.  · Vivid, gripping, and steeped in the language and traditions of Việt Nam, The Mountains Listen to author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai reading from THE MOUNTAINS SING. The Mountains Sing is a beautiful, heartbreaking novel of family, forgiveness, and perseverance by Vietnamese author Nguyen Phan Que Mai. It features a split timeline, which I usually avoid in historical fiction because so often one timeline is much better than the other(s)/5.

The Mountains Sing is celebrated Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai's first novel in English. From the Author "My publisher at Algonquin Books forwarded me the news of my first book in English, The Mountains Sing, winning BookBrowse's Best Debut Award for and I sat there crying. True, Mai's novel lacks the intrigue and the restless struggle for identity that makes Viet Than Nguyen's works so page-grippingly tumultuous. But Mai's work offers us something equally significant. Despite the famines, the bombings, and executions, The Mountains Sing maintains a sense of the sublime on every page. Listen to author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai reading from THE MOUNTAINS SING. Vivid, gripping, and steeped in the language and traditions of Việt Nam, The Mountains.

The Mountains Sing. Algonquin Books, The novel is divided into two storylines: the main story in Hà Nội, where Hương lives through the war and its aftermath through the 70s, and Diệu Lan’s life from – which includes the Great Hunger and the Land Reform, during which she escaped to Hà Nội. Vivid, gripping, and steeped in the language and traditions of Việt Nam, The Mountains Listen to author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai reading from THE MOUNTAINS SING. “The Mountains Sing,” the first novel in English by the Vietnamese poet Nguyen Phan Que Mai, imagines her country’s traumatic 20th century through the stories of three generations of women.