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Penguin Books Girls Monkey Bridge : A Novel (Paperback) Dark
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Hailed by critics and writers as powerful important fiction Monkey Bridge charts the unmapped territory of the Vietnamese American experience in the aftermath of war. Like navigating a monkey bridge--a bridge built of spindly bamboo used by peasants for centuries--the narrative traverses perilously between worlds past and present East and West in telling two interlocking stories: one the Vietnamese version of the classic immigrant experience in America told by a young girl; and the second a dark tale of betrayal political intrigue family secrets and revenge--her mother s tale. The haunting and beautiful terrain of Monkey Bridge is the luminous motion as it is called in Vietnamese myth and legend between generations encompassing Vietnamese lore history and dreams of the past as well as of the future. With incredible lightness balance and elegance writes Isabel Allende Lan Cao crosses over an abyss of pain loss separation and exile connecting on one level the opposite realities of Vietnam and North America and on a deeper level the realities of the material world and the world of the spirits. - Quality Paperback Book Club Selection and New Voices Award nominee - A Kiriyama Pacific Rim Award Book Prize nominee
Penguin Books Girls Monkey Bridge : A Novel (Paperback) Dark
Hailed by critics and writers as powerful important fiction Monkey Bridge charts the unmapped territory of the Vietnamese American experience in the aftermath of war. Like navigating a monkey bridge--a bridge built of spindly bamboo used by peasants for centuries--the narrative traverses perilously between worlds past and present East and West in telling two interlocking stories: one the Vietnamese version of the classic immigrant experience in America told by a young girl; and the second a dark tale of betrayal political intrigue family secrets and revenge--her mother s tale. The haunting and beautiful terrain of Monkey Bridge is the luminous motion as it is called in Vietnamese myth and legend between generations encompassing Vietnamese lore history and dreams of the past as well as of the future. With incredible lightness balance and elegance writes Isabel Allende Lan Cao crosses over an abyss of pain loss separation and exile connecting on one level the opposite realities of Vietnam and North America and on a deeper level the realities of the material world and the world of the spirits. - Quality Paperback Book Club Selection and New Voices Award nominee - A Kiriyama Pacific Rim Award Book Prize nominee
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