Summary
The story of a northern village during the American War in Vietnam, where all the young men have left to fight, and the loved ones left behind labor through grief and yearning to build a new society.
Undeniably one of Vietnam’s most beloved stories, Dương Hư_x1EDB_ng’s No Man River is a novel about the homefront during the American War and its aftermath. Awarded the Vietnam Writers’ Association’s most prestigious prize in 1991—the same year B_x1EA3_o Ninh’s The Sorrow of War was publi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789815233834 |
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| ISBN-10: | 9815233831 |
| Author: | Dương Hư_x1EDB_ng |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 29 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 216g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 136mm x 14mm |
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About The Author
Dương Hư_x1EDB_ng
Dương Hướng was born in 1948 in the northern province of Thai Bình, and currently lives in Quảng Ninh. The author of six books, he is best known for his novel No Man River (Bến không chồng), which won Vietnam’s most prestigious prize for fiction in 1991. Considered one of the three best novels about the American War in Vietnam written in the reform era, it has been widely read, studied and critiqued, translated into French and Italian, reprinted several times, and twice adapted into film. For his outstanding achievements, Dương Hướng received the National Hồ Chí Minh Prize for Literature and Arts in 2017.
Quan Manh Ha is professor of American literature and ethnic studies at the University of Montana (USA). He is the co-translator of Other Moons- Vietnamese Short Stories of the American War and Its Aftermath; Hà Nội at Midnight- Stories by Bảo Ninh; Luminous Nights- Pioneering Vietnamese Short Stories; The Termite Queen, a novel by Tạ Duy Anh; and Longings- Contemporary Fiction by Vietnamese Women Writers.
Charles Waugh is the co-editor and co-translator of three books of Vietnamese fiction- Tạ Duy Anh’s novel The Termite Queen with Quan Manh Ha; and the story collections Wild Mustard, with Văn Gia and Nguyễn Liên; and Family of Fallen Leaves, with Nguyễn Liên. A professor of English at Utah State University (USA), he is also the Associate Editor for Fiction at ISLE, the journal of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment.
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