Memories of a Pure Spring

Memories of a Pure Spring is a mesmerizing portrait of modern Vietnam and its people who struggle to survive under the complexities of a post-war regime. During the Vietnam war, Hung, a well-known composer, becomes enchanted by the voice and beauty of a young peasant girl named Suong. He invites her to join his troupe; she becomes his wife and his star performer. But after the war, Hung loses his job, setting off a series of events that drive him and Suong into a destructive spiral. One of Vietnam's most popular writers, Duong Thu Huong draws on her own experiences to describe life at the battlefront, the conditions of a "re-education" camp, and the texture and rhythm, scents and sounds, of a provincial Vietnamese city. Most of all, she tells a haunting, universal story of failed love.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 01/01/2001
ISBN: 9780140298437
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.12w x 0.69d

Review Citations: New York Times 01/14/2001 pg. 28