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Mai Nguyen, a young Vietnamese woman, comes of age in America after leaving Saigon in 1975, while her mother has difficulty adjusting to life in their new country, in a novel filled with Vietnamese lore.
Summary
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 secon…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140263619 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140263616 |
| Author: | Lan Cao |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 1998 |
| Weight: | 193g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 12mm |
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Lan Cao
Lan Cao is a professor of international law at Brooklyn Law School and resides in New York City.
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