{"product_id":"chronicles-of-a-village-9780300276404","title":"Chronicles of a Village","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn incantatory poetic novel that interweaves the legends, tragedies, and histories of a village in Vietnam\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At the foot of Mun Mountain in central Vietnam, a self-appointed scribe collects the stories of his neighbors--tales of love, nature, and war--and weaves them into a surrealist history of their farming community. In crystalline fragments resembling prose poems, the scribe eternalizes the vanishing beauty and tragic transformation of the village--its sacred forests, astonishing animals, mythical figures, and human lives nurtured by a profound love for soil and sky, as well as its catastrophes: ecological destruction, political purges, asphyxiating modernity, violence, and indoctrination in the name of progress. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Nguyễn Thanh Hiện's \u003ci\u003eChronicles of a Village\u003c\/i\u003e, the writer's first work to be translated into English, is an elegy for a place and a people; a profound meditation on how history is created, destroyed, manipulated, and rewritten; and a tribute to the beauty and \"fatal historical disabilities of a land.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300276404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144","brand":"Nguyen Thanh Hien","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43623995867317,"sku":"9780300276404","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_0df28ec1-5784-40fb-b88f-273d07bd70ea.jpg?v=1707798122","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/chronicles-of-a-village-9780300276404","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}